How to create the shape of two circles connected by tangent lines in Carbide Create?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

You would need to do the trigonometry to determine the tangents, or the necessary rotation.

I worked up an example of doing this in BlockSCAD here:

Determine the angle of vectors at a node

Carbide Create doesn’t have a feature for this — you have to do the underlying trigonometry, or draw the tangent at right angles, then rotate the circle and the other geometry (but if the circle is a circle, it won’t rotate unless you perform a node edit or Boolean operation to make it into a curve). Recent tech support query had me doing: https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1318915 Post the file?

the file could be exported to OpenSCAD and a projection() command added to get a flat version which can be exported to a DXF or SVG.

Alternately, program in a tool such as Nodebox and export an SVG?