Re: How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides?

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Pettengill"
<gpetteng@b...> wrote:

> Dear Fellow CAD-aholics,
>
> I would like to design memorial pieces for the space shuttle crews,

so I would like to have a seven sided object, with one face for each
member.

>
> Somehow I thought it would be a lot easier than it has turned out

to be and I was wondering if I had jumped the track or something! I
guess I am looking for a 7 sided geodesic sphere? Some questions
that come to mind are; what is it properly called, are they at all
useful, where do they hide because I cannot recall ever seeing one....

>
> Until someone tells me otherwise I think I'm going to call them St.

Ives gons. :-)

>
> Best Regards
> Greg Pettengill
> Cote' Art & Engineering

I am trying to visualize a geodesic structure with 7 sides. I can't
get there. Here is a link for some free software that will let you
design 3D geodesic objects. Its a series of triangles. Another way
is to draw one seven side 2D object (that might be a challenge in
itself) and make copies and start connecting sides. Been a long day.
Too late to think of such abstract problems!

http://www.applied-synergetics.com/ashp/html/domes.html

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