help with an ellipse

[nicolanicola]

Trying to draw the top of a screw which is at a slight angle as its in perspective. I've tried doing this with the drawEllipse tool but its doesn't seem to be able to let me tell it I don't want it positioned straight, I want it rotated a little bit. Any ideas?

I've tried doing it with curve To but it looks rubbish, but then I have only used 2 anchor points.

[neznein9]

Draw a circle/ellipse and then use free transform to squash/skew and rotate it to fit your artwork.

[nicolanicola]

Draw a circle/ellipse and then use free transform to squash/skew and rotate it to fit your artwork.

Do you mean drawing by hand? Because I'm talking about drawing with actionscript code.

[Ralgoth]

you could always draw it by hand, then convert it to actionscript.

I've used Quasimondo's Actionscript Shape Decoder for past projects.

[nicolanicola]

ooh thanks Ralgoth, I didn't know such a thing existed!

[neznein9]

I was thinking hand-drawing but any of the tools in free-transform can be recreated using scaleX/Y, rotation, or a matrix transform (http://kinderas.blogspot.com/2008/04...age-using.html).

Thanks for the link Ralgoth - that's a nice tool.