Add a free spiral between two lines in situations where you want the spirals to maintain tangency to the lines they are attached to.
For this solution, the spirals are simple, incurve, or outcurve.
The following illustration shows a free spiral between two lines. The possible solutions include:
- simple spiral incurve
- simple spiral outcurve
To add a free spiral (between two lines)
- Click the alignment. Click Alignment tab
Modify panelGeometry Editor
. - On the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar, click
Free Spiral (Between Two Entities). The current spiral definition is displayed at the command line. For more information about changing the default spiral definition, see Specifying Curve and Spiral Settings.
- Select the entity before and the entity after to add the spiral to.
- Specify the spiral type as either Incurve or Outcurve.
- Specify the spiral length or the A value.