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

Hello Greg,

Saturday, April 12, 2003, 1:47:06 PM, you wrote:

GP> Dear Fellow CAD-aholics,

GP> I would like to design memorial pieces for the space shuttle crews, so I would like to have a
GP> seven sided object, with one face for each member.

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

I assume that you are wanting an object with seven identical faces.
If that is the case, they hide because they don't exist. This
type of object is called a Platonic solid. The set includes
tetrahedron (4 triangles) cube (4 squares) octahedron ( 8
triangles) dodecahedron (10 pentagons) and icosahedron (20
triangles)..

GP> Until someone tells me otherwise I think I'm going to call them St. Ives gons. :-)


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