[Plugin] Antiprism v1.1 20101114

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antiprism.rb >>> Plugins Folder

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Usage:
Tool to make an 'Antiprism'.
Type into Ruby Console:
antiprism number_of_sides, length_of_a_side
e.g. antiprism(3, 1.m)
It is grouped and made centered at the origin.
It is named 'Antiprism[3x1.000]'.
Height is calculated so its side-triangle edges equal its side length.

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Donations:
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Version:
1.0 20101113 First Release.
1.1 20101114 PI glitch fixed.

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attachment=0]antiprism.rb[/attachment]

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Put into Plugins folder...

[pilou]

Maybe more speedy than my speedy method

[TIG]

Here are some examples:

[pilou]

At the endless infiny, it's a cylinder

[TIG]

@unknownuser said:

At the infinity, it's a cylinder

It is...
although a cylinder as a 'prism' has thin rectangular faces
and an antiprism 'cylinder' has triangular faces...

[pilou]

And a real cylinder has just one curvated surface in the world of Nurbs

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@unknownuser said:

And a real cylinder has just one curvated surface in the world of Nurbs

In Sketchup it has a 'Surface' too but that consists of 'Faces' with smoothed 'Edges' between them!
A 'cheat'

[TIG]

I've made the matching 'Prism' tool here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=287169#p287169
So that you can now make 'prisms' AND 'antiprisms', with any number of sides and size length.

[sketchup_roolz]

I'm dumb! Works great!

[TIG]

Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=287140#p287140
It fixes a rare potential 'PI' glitch if you don't have certain other scripts installed...

[sketchup_roolz]

@tig said:

Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=287140#p287140
It fixes a rare potential 'PI' glitch if you don't have certain other scripts installed...

Thanks!