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Sketching the ellipse

Sketching the ellipse - Fusion 360 Tutorial

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Sketching the ellipse

- [Instructor] For us, to sketch the ellipse, we need a horizontal plane traversing to our construction lines. We can use Offset Plane, but the best option would be using Plane at Angle. So selecting Plane at Angle prompted to select a reference line. Let's select this first horizontal line, and grab this blue circle and specifically key in negative 90. Hitting Enter. Let's repeat the steps. Selecting Repeat Plane at Angle by right-clicking. Selecting this line. Keying in negative 90. Sliding up. The Repeat Plane at Angle, selecting this horizontal line, keying in negative 90. Let's create our ellipse. Let's head to Sketch, Selecting Ellipse. Prompted to select a plane, or planar face. Let's select our default, XZ plane. And before proceeding to create our ellipse, we need a reference. And that reference will be this horizontal line, so I'm going to grab my project tool by hitting P, select this horizontal line, and hit Okay. Hitting S to grab our Sketch Toolbox, and type E-L…

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