Free Polyhedron generator
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As the title says...a handy little Windows program that will generate a bewildering number of regular polyhedra. If you're after a specific one, you may have to Google then enter its Wythoff symbol.
It will output either a pdf pattern to make a paper model....or amazingly...export a Ruby script that you can enter into the Console to generate the geometry in SU.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gsolaar/Pasting the Ruby script into the Console will place a gsolaar menu item for that particular polyhedron at the bottom of the Extensions menu.
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The puts statements contain multi-byte characters that may need to be edited or removed.
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It doesn't seem to make any difference. The polyhedron is created whether the statements are left in French accented or translated to English.
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It would not load in SU2014 without removing them.
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It will fail in newer SketchUps >=v2014.
The file is NOT encoded as UTF-8 - it's ANSI.
It's also poorly formed code - e.g. without its own module, global-variables etc.
Here a better / 'compatible' version...
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Well gents, I admit that the coding does look a little primitive, but what can I say? It's not my coding...and it works for me in Pro 2016 v16.1.1449. and the skp is up there to prove it (although I think I saved it in SU 2015 for non-upgraders) I notice that no one has actually downloaded the end result yet.
Thanks for improving it TIG. Do you think you could throw in some parametrics too?
(BTW, I see that guy on the Trimble forum is still at it. I've never come across anyone so unwilling to admit a mistake) -
Funny
the Tig file - (originals generated don't work for me 2016-2015 Make)
I have no more my old versions of SU (6-7)! How big is my distress!
PS Seems the program can be installed in English, French and...Breton!
Multiple Face Offset by Remus, Inverse Selection by Tig Joint PushPull by Fredo6
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I don't have much use for this myself, but to anyone dealing with geodesic structures it looks the biz. It seems quite new...Donateware.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/oaktree/geodesica/Some YouTube vids
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsp1DWUkWjK312s7JKdO6g/feed
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