Selecting your drawing aid or tool
![LitioLAB basic drawing aids:
oblong figures, or mathematical functions: sine wave, cosine wave, Lissajous curves,
2D parabolas [pick points],
2D catenary [pick points and length],
spirograph, or import XLS coordinate data to CAD entity, 2D & 3D spiral and helix](images/lldlg1.png "Select the specific drawing aid to draw:
oblong figures, or mathematical functions: sine, cosine, Lissajous curves,
2D parabolas [defined by pick points],
2D catenary [defined by pick points and length],
spirograph-like figures, or
XLS coordinates import to CAD entity, 2D spiral, 3D helix, 3D Spiral helix")
This dialog, by clicking on the propper image or button, will direct you to, either:
- the specific drawing aid (oblong, sine, cosine, Lissajous curves, 2D parabola [defined by pick points], 2D catenary [defined by pick points and length], spirograph-like figures, XLS coordinates import to CAD entity, 2D spiral, 3D helix, 3D Spiral helix).
- the 2nd main dialog (dialog 2/2: math-graph function dialog: either 2D or 3D curve, or 3D surface).
- XLS coordinate import to graph.
- Load LLP (LitioLAB Project).
- Settings dialog, as follows.
![LitioLAB Settings:
choose: Dialog image background color, Drawing preferences: points, lines, polylines & meshes,
Insertion point [origin or pick point], Formula scale factor,
Save file(s) after drawing, and Force Virtual vectors](images/llsettng.png "LitioLAB Settings:
Dialog image, Drawing preferences,
Insertion point, Formula scale factor,
Save file(s) after drawing
Dialog Image Color, Force Virtual")
Get your now!
now!
Get your full working version of
LitioLAB in minutes!
Video: Basic tools of LitioLAB
- Oblong - enter the length and width of the oblong.
- Sine wave - enter the length of the wave and its amplitude. - And the same for the cosine wave.
- Lissajous curve - also known as Lissajous figure or Bowditch curve - enter the amplitude, and other parameters.
- Parabola - pick the points that define it. [the 3 points that define the shape (and one or two more points to trim and extend it)].
- Catenary curve - defined by the two end points, and its length (which must be greater than the distance between the ends).
- Spirograph curve - with lots of parameters like the base diameter, the rotating circle radius and the drawing pen position radius, etc.
- A simple spiral, with starting radius and ending radius.
- Helix with a constant radius, and several turns, a figure that resembles a spring.
- Conic helix, with the starting and ending radiuses, and its height.
Check also, how to draw a 2D catenary [defined by pick points and length].