Help Please! How do I do this...
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:32 pm
Hi there,
I'm new to Great Stella. I have a specific goal in mind, but after reading the documentation, I'm not clear on how to accomplish it, and am hoping I can get some help from you.
I'm designing a sculpture and want to spit out nets that I can send to the metal shop fabricating it. However, the shape is a bit odd. Here's what it looks like now:
http://mitchvandusen.com/shape.jpg
Here's what I'd like to do:
1. The top shape is a johnson solid: trapezoidal hexacontahedron. My desire is to slice off a part of the bottom, and create two polyhedrons emanating from whatever shape/face is left on the bottom after the cut.
2. I know you can add polyhedron to any other polyhedron, but I am unclear how to make the specific shape I'm talking about, both with the adjustments to the main johnson solid, and with an appropriate polyhedron coming out of the base. If i could at least output the top/main polyhedron and the bottom polyhedron, I would be happy and can work with that.
3. I want to scale it up, but what are the dimensions that scaling is measured in? Neither the manual, nor the actual software input specify.
I know this is long, so I'll sum it up:
1. How do I slice off a part of the top/main polyhedron?
2. How to I create a second (and ideally third) polyhedron emanating down from that?
3. What measurements are the scaling options measured in?
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Mitch
I'm new to Great Stella. I have a specific goal in mind, but after reading the documentation, I'm not clear on how to accomplish it, and am hoping I can get some help from you.
I'm designing a sculpture and want to spit out nets that I can send to the metal shop fabricating it. However, the shape is a bit odd. Here's what it looks like now:
http://mitchvandusen.com/shape.jpg
Here's what I'd like to do:
1. The top shape is a johnson solid: trapezoidal hexacontahedron. My desire is to slice off a part of the bottom, and create two polyhedrons emanating from whatever shape/face is left on the bottom after the cut.
2. I know you can add polyhedron to any other polyhedron, but I am unclear how to make the specific shape I'm talking about, both with the adjustments to the main johnson solid, and with an appropriate polyhedron coming out of the base. If i could at least output the top/main polyhedron and the bottom polyhedron, I would be happy and can work with that.
3. I want to scale it up, but what are the dimensions that scaling is measured in? Neither the manual, nor the actual software input specify.
I know this is long, so I'll sum it up:
1. How do I slice off a part of the top/main polyhedron?
2. How to I create a second (and ideally third) polyhedron emanating down from that?
3. What measurements are the scaling options measured in?
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Mitch