Incident Constraint

Incident Constraint

Top  Previous  Next

Incident_Constraint 

Constrain a point to be incident to any other geometry; line, segment, vector, polygon side, circle or locus with these steps:

  1. Select select  the point and the other geometry listed above.
  2. Click the Incident icon constrain_incident  from the Constrain toolbox, or select Incident from the Constrain menu.

The point is moved to meet the line or curve, or the extension of the line.

Below is an example of the latter, point D is moved to lie on the extension of line segment AB.

Incident_Constraint_ex1 

If you select the point or the line, incidence is indicated by a bowtie around the point:

Incident_Constraint_ex2