<icee>
hey, i just found solvespace and it's teh awesome
<icee>
would be nice if it was easier to do tangency things with circles, e.g. construct two circles tangent to each other
<icee>
it's a lot of construction to do as far as i can tell, and i get buried in lines fast
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<Na>
icee: I'm probably just missing something here, but can't you do that with two circles a point, and a maybe line joining the circles' centres if you don't have something else to stop them from intersecting elsewhere?
<icee>
yah, circle, circle, point, on curve, on curve, line between centers, on line
<icee>
but i've got 4 circles. huge circle A is tangent to B & D; circle B is tangent to C; circle C is tangent to D
<icee>
pretty soon it's a lot of geometry before i've even doen anything real
<icee>
(and a lot of scaling things around so i don't grab the wrong thing when building up the geom)
<Na>
Fair enough. In that case, you may be interested in using some custom styles (or, depending on the design, breaking things out into more groups/components)
<Na>
In the custom styles case, select the lines you want hidden, right click on one of them, select "Assign to Style" -> "Newly Created Custom Style", then check the "show these objects on screen" box at the bottom of the property browser window