Elusive angle in a few pencils
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The mathematics escapes me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the angle you need is 70deg.
Edit: Come to think of it, I suspect it's going to be something like 70.333333333333 Deg
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It's nearer 19.27...
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Tig, subtract 19.27 from 90.
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True, but that's why I edited my post above and said 70.33333 deg.
It struck me that 19 was too little and 20 was too much so it had to be one third of one deg which is usually .333333 recurring. -
@box said:
True, but that's why I edited my post above and said 70.33333 deg.
It struck me that 19 was too little and 20 was too much so it had to be one third of one deg which is usually .333333 recurring.I posted without reading your updated post...
No offense intended
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None taken Tig, it's just one of those mathematic annoyances.
We were looking at it from different perspectives, me from the vertical and you the horizontal.Either way I think the correct answer to jim4366's question is, in reality it's not possible to get all the connecting surfaces to be coplanar, even rotating all three, the original by .333333333333333deg (while connected to the next leg) and the other two by 70.333333333333333333 from the vertical or 19.333333333333333 from the horizontal, will still leave a none coplanar connection, albeit infinitesimal.
I imagine writing a plugin to do it would be annoying.
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I this is the definitive trig ?
Or of course sin(1/3)=19.471221
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The mathematics is beyond my skill level, I still count by stamping my foot.
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@box said:
The mathematics is beyond my skill level, I still count by stamping my foot.
+1
One of these days I'm going to have to dive into trig -- it seems alot of things I would like to be able to do rely on trig...
Best,
Jason.
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