Find angle of arc

I noticed that the:Radius/Center Point component under the Curve Analysis tab shows the arc angle. Is there any way to extract that angle from this component? I plugged the Convert Radians to Degrees component, but the angles do not always match.

Thanks for any input,

Vern

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Permalink Reply by Jacob Buchenauer on March 6, 2013 at 1:24pm

I was about to ask this same questions! I have a series of arcs and need to sort them by their length, but when I sort by length, the resulting list is just distances, and not the original arcs.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 6, 2013 at 1:43pm

The trick is synchronous sorting:

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 6, 2013 at 1:53pm

I don't get it. What do you mean by 'extract that angle from this component'? It is an output so the data is already 'extracted from the component'.

Note that an arc is defined by a plane, a radius and two angles; start and end:

The Angle output of the arc analysis component is a domain consisting of these two numbers. When the arc starts at the plane x-axis, then the start angle is zero and the end angle equals the total angle of the arc. If this is not the case then the length of the angle domain represents the total angle of the arc. This angle is defined in radians.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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