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Drawing a Truncated Icosahedron. S/ Stella4D is a free download program ideal for this, however, used as a free edition the functions are limited to the basic ones. With activation of a licensed version this can easily be solved.
S/ Google SketchUp is a very nice solution for this problem, it’s easy to use, lots of YouTube tutorials, and it’s a FREE download!
S/ The regular way to go about it, is to draw a circle with the use of a compass and subdivide this circle in five even parts. But this way you need to know the dimension of the circle in relation to the needed edge length. To be able to draw the pentagon with the correct dimensions. To difficult! The alternate way is by use of help lines which go out of the pentagon area: The construction consists of the following steps: Thanks to David E. Dirkse's website the pentagon is the correct size to be used in the build of the capsule in the truncated icosahedron shape. Article last modified on 04/02/2012 |
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