Just to make sure that I understand what you are trying to draw -- a
regular Hexagon would be one will all sides and angles being equal?
-- if that is what you are looking for holding the shift key works.
The only thing I can see that I did differently was to select the
Hexagon from the Palette, and then clicked the "top left" corner of
the location where I wanted to draw.
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On Dec 4, 2005, at 9:02 AM, David King wrote:
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 10:21 +0000, David King wrote:
Is it possible to draw a regular hexagon/pentagon in Draw,
without resorting
to a calculator?
Holding the Shift key merely restrains the outline to a square.
These are basic shapes in the current release. Perhaps if you tell us
the OS, release of OOo you use and as much info on your system as
possible we will be able to give a better answer.
OpenOffice 1.9.100 WinXP
May be in the latest version the way of drawing polygons has
changed? I
couldn't find it on the OpenOffice site anywhere, and there are no
refs to
hexagons or pentagons in the archives.
I'll update of course if I need to, but I've seen nothing to
suggest it'll
help.
To be clear about the problem: to draw a hexagon, I select the
'basic shapes'
hexagon, and click / drag on the screen. This will draw a hexagon
whose
dimensions depend on where I dragged to. I can also hold down the
shift key
while dragging - in this case I get a hexagon whose width and
height are
constrained to a set ratio. Unfortunately the ratio is not that of
a regular
hexagon. I could calculate what the proper ratio is then set it in
'properties' - but that's a load of trouble. I thought there might
be a trick
that I've missed....?
Thanks
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