Creating a Hyperbola by Focus

This task shows you how to create a hyperbola by clicking the focus, center and apex, and then the hyperbola two extremity points.

  1. Click Hyperbola by Focus from the Profiles toolbar (Conic subtoolbar).

  1. Click to define the hyperbola focus, center and apex.

Focus:
Once you click, the focus is symbolized
by a cross ().

Center (asympote intersection):
The center is not associative to the hyperbola.

Apex:

  1. Click two points that correspond to the hyperbola end points.
     

 First Point:

Second Point:
The hyperbola results as shown here:

 
Note that, you can use the Sketch tools toolbar for defining the excentricity of the hyperbola.