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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      Carsten, that's great.

      Scott, I like that your method, too. No plugins required.

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      • cottyC Offline
        cotty
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        @s shepherd said:

        Here's a quick and dirty way of drawing this type polyhedron.

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        cotty, thanks for revealing screenr.

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        • BoxB Online
          Box
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          A truncated Octahedron is a very simple structure if you know the trick. People struggle with the calculations of the angles involved, but they are pretty simple too when you know them. You only need to know 54.736 deg and 35.264 deg add up to 90 deg.
          However, if you haven't had that particular bisection of 90deg drilled into you at birth, you'll find the simple split cube method easy to use and remember.

          Start with a cube of any size, cut through it on the diagonal mid points and remove one side, this will create one eighth of the shape which can then be rotated and flipped to make the rest.
          No calculations, no head scratching no hair pulling.

          See vid for clarity.

          [screenr:2owcfgcb]QkmH[/screenr:2owcfgcb]

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          • G Offline
            gangaiah
            last edited by

            How did u make one pyramid into octahedron? What option have you used to get exact alignment of pyramid to for octahedron. Can you please tell me ?

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            • cottyC Offline
              cotty
              last edited by

              You don't need a plugin for this shape, only basic tools...
              Screencast

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              • cottyC Offline
                cotty
                last edited by

                Is it not the shown shape in the screencast?

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                • G Offline
                  gangaiah
                  last edited by

                  It is not. Please see that two adjacent facets are not same. One is rectangle and another one is trapezoid. There is a difference.

                  Thanks and regards,
                  Gangaiah

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                  • cottyC Offline
                    cotty
                    last edited by

                    Does this screencast help as a start?


                    micro_thing_2.zip

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                    • G Offline
                      gangaiah
                      last edited by

                      Thanks for sending screen shot. But, it is only half of the structure. Making it full was little tricky. The similar way, I have also followed and partially succeed.

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                      • ely862meE Offline
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                        last edited by

                        A better image would help more!

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                        • rodrigonotorR Offline
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                          Take a look at this page

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                          George W. Hart --- Index

                          Index to George W. Hart's web pages, including geometric sculpture, polyhedra, and trilobites.

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                          Stella - Create Polyhedra and Nets! Platonic, Archimedean, Catalan, Kepler-Poinsot, uniform, and dual polyhedra, their stellations, and polyhedron nets

                          Stella4D, Great Stella and Small Stella are polyhedron programs. Create Platonic, Archimedean, uniform, dual polyhedra, stellated polyhedra, and polyhedron nets

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                          • rodrigonotorR Offline
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                            last edited by

                            Maybe this can help

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                            Truncated octahedron - Wikipedia

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                            • mitcorbM Offline
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                              see if this is close


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                                gangaiah
                                last edited by

                                Can you please tell me how to draw, the model of the attached file. It is 2D image, similar to truncated octahedron. Kindly make a video and write what tool you are using in constructing such shapes.

                                Thanks and regards,
                                Gangaiah.

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                                  gangaiah
                                  last edited by

                                  Dear Cotty,
                                  Can you please teach me, how to draw the shape attached herewith.

                                  Thanks and regards,
                                  Ganagiah.

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                                    gangaiah
                                    last edited by

                                    Can any one help me in drawing this shape?

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                                      gangaiah
                                      last edited by

                                      I want to know how to make some portion of an object porous?

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                                      • pilouP Offline
                                        pilou
                                        last edited by

                                        have you an image of a "porous object" ?

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