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

on 2003-04-16 18:53:59 UTC
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 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 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 hide because I cannot recall ever seeing one....

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

As an addendum to my previous addendum, a cube has (of course) 6
sides (not 4) and I resized the pic to something more reasonable
(300+k)..

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Best regards,
Larry mailto:lvanduyn@...

Discussion Thread

Greg Pettengill 2003-04-16 15:39:30 UTC How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? dcdziner 2003-04-16 16:28:03 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? caudlet 2003-04-16 17:33:35 UTC Re: How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Larry Van Duyn 2003-04-16 18:25:12 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Larry Van Duyn 2003-04-16 18:32:56 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Larry Van Duyn 2003-04-16 18:53:59 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Raymond Heckert 2003-04-16 20:37:34 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? aerowright 2003-04-16 21:28:23 UTC Re: How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Brad Eyben 2003-04-17 06:57:23 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Brad Eyben 2003-04-17 07:11:29 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? ericgraham 2003-04-17 09:07:54 UTC Re: How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides? Harvey White 2003-04-17 11:59:33 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] How to draw 3D objects with 7 sides?