How to Draw Ellipses in AutoCAD?

How to use AutoCAD to draw ellipses? How to draw ellipses arc in CAD? 

You can draw ellipses and elliptical arcs with ELLIPSE. Simple as this command is, some related technical terms might be confusing. Don’t fret! I made the diagram below to illustrate them. As you can see from the image below, the ellipse has two axes of symmetry, the major and minor ones.

Steps to draw an ellipse:

1. Input [EL] and press Enter.
2. Specify the first end of one axis.
3. Specify the second end of the axis.
4. Determine one end of the other axis.

To draw an elliptical arc, simply input “A” after the above step 1, repeat the step 2-4 above to draw an ellipse, and cut it to get an arc by specifying the start and end angles.

By now you should have a better understanding of what this command can do.

Tip

You can rotate the ellipse around the major axis by inputting “R” and then specifying the angle of rotation after step 3 like I did in the GIF above.