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To me, though, the pictures of Tudor arches look more like top pointed ellipticals. So, I drew a 48" x 12" elliptical in AutoCAD. Then I took a line straight off the top center vertically upward for 4". I then drew a line from the top of that 4" line to the tangent point on the ellipse to the left and right. Trimming away the top center of the original ellipse left a pretty good looking Tudor arch. Then to see if I could get the straight lines from the top point changed to curves, I simply drew a 3 point arc from top center to a point about 1" to 2" out from the center of the straight line, and then down to a visually tangent point on the original elliptical side tight curve. For some reason using a "tangent" snap here didn't generate the two curves as tangent to each other. This process seemed to give me the correct proportions.
From the original questioner: Contributor B, I should have known you would jump on this. The info I have found says that a Tudor arch is a flattened gothic arch. I'll play around with your procedure this afternoon after I get some other things done. This is fun stuff. Something new. Thanks. From contributor G: Print a dimensional layout and then draw it with a pencil to look good, scan it, and then draw it in your cad program. Have you reviewed the related Knowledge Base areas below? 
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