CAD a D12
Supplies
CAD Software, I use OnShape as it is free
Inscribed Pentagon
- Make an inscribed pentagon on the "Top" plane
- Make a point of the pentagon be connected to the "Right" plane
- Add your one dimension to say how big the circle is
- Add a construction line from the constrained point down along the "Right" plane
- Make the construction line be equal (same length as) the side of the pentagon
- Add a construction line from the bottom of the pentagon to the outside of the construction circle
Find the Center
- Make a construction line the height of the pentagon
- Make a construction circle from the base of the pentagon to the top of the pentagon
- Make a construction circle from the top of the pentagon to end of the construction line representing the length of a side
- Make a rough hexagon
- Start from the outside of the large construction circle
- Go to the construction line used for the height of the triangle
- Then go to the edge of the small construction circle
- Constrain the hexagon's length
- 4 off the sides are the same length as the height of the hexagon
- The other two are the length of the side of the hexagon
- Make opposite sides of the hexagon the same length
- Long > Long > Short > Long > Long > Short
- Make opposite sides of the hexagon parallel to each other
- Add construction across the hexagon using the short lines to make a rectangle
- Constrain the crossing lines to be perpendicular to the short lines
- Add a construction line through across the hexagon, connecting the points where to long lines meet
- Add a point at the midpoint of this line
- This will be the center of the object
- Constrain the midpoint to be in plane with the center point of the pentagon
Loft to the Center
- Loft the pentagon down to the center point found
Rotate and Mirror
- Rotate the object 3x evenly around various edges until there is a full D12 shape
Boolean Merge
- Merge all of the parts together
Finish!
You now have a "blank" D12!
Feel free to add numbers to it or whatever else you want!