Polyhedra Starter Kit

Not this time! I trust affinity to get that part right.

He said he imported them into a CAD program, though… CAD tends to like to speak DXF or some such, so I might be a bit leery of SVG stroke dimensions coming in cleanly to something like that.

That being said, Inkscape rules, Affinity drools. :stuck_out_tongue:

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You two are cracking me up! :rofl:

I do work in a CAD program (Rhino) where stroke width doesn’t exist - but luckily offsetting curves by X amount is trivial and reliable - so I just need to get used to when and where I need to do it.

@evansd2 you’re right in general that SVG in and out of CAD might be squirrelly - luckily Rhino brought in @geek2nurse 's file perfectly. Now I get to see how its SVG export behaves… Luckily, already a few posts by others here who work in Rhino so most of the gotchas have already been found and worked around. God bless the trailblazers! :pray:

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Well, Rhino is definitely no casual app, that’s some serious kit. You’ll probably be just fine.

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#necrogame

This post deserves some more love :slight_smile:

It came up because my non-lasering sibling picked up a “brain teaser” puzzle that was exactly the octahedron from here, but with different connectors :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thanks for this starter kit, @geek2nurse! I used it to make my first dodecahedron.

My husband and I have been asked to teach a Sunday School class at church for a group of 11-13 year olds. We’ve found that we need to use a variety of hands-on activities to keep them engaged. I decided to make a 12-sided die. The kids loved rolling it, and we used it twice in our class yesterday, once to decide whose turn it was to silently act out a concept while the other class members guessed (charades), and once to determine how many “talents” each class member would receive (foil-covered chocolate coins).

I cut the pieces out of 1/8 baltic birch and glued everything together with wood glue.

The outside layer is whiteboard mdf. I scored the numbers, but we can also write on the sides with a dry erase marker (kids’ names, scripture references, etc.) to create a custom 12-sided die that suits our needs.

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I really like the way the edges of the dice look so clean and neat. Beautiful. :blush:

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Great kit!

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