I may be missing something obvious (pop-up menu?), but I can only create isosceles triangles, and would like to make right-angled ones. If someone could give me a hint, I would be grateful.
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Well - I´d go: pick pencil tool set one initial point - hold shift key down while introducing the next 2 points - by this Intaglio maintains rectangular lines - to close the triangle hold alt-key down and click first point - or hit enter and click “Closed” at the stroke tab.
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On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Frank wrote:
Well - I´d go: pick pencil tool set one initial point - hold shift
key down while introducing the next 2 points - by this Intaglio
maintains rectangular lines
Maybe you should have said that Intaglio maintains 45º diagonal
lines. ;-))
One can also use the straight line tool
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Not sure how your advice help with right-angled triangles. 
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On 1 Jul 2011, 2:27 pm, Frank wrote:
Well - I´d go: pick pencil tool set one initial point - hold shift key down while introducing the next 2 points - by this Intaglio maintains rectangular lines - to close the triangle hold alt-key down and click first point - or hit enter and click “Closed” at the stroke tab.
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Frank
Thanks: that helps. Is there a way to apply an interior color: the Fill command doesn’t seem to do it
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No? Hit the color square at “fill” palette (is “white” by default) go to the color wheel (or whatever you prefer to choose from) and pick a new/other one.
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On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Frank wrote:
Not sure how your advice help with right-angled triangles.
The same distances from a point, 45 southwest and 45 southeast,
that’s a right isosceles triangle in standard Euclid position. :-))
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Seems I´m lost in translation - but I thought the thread starter didn´t want a isosceles triangle but a rectangular one and there shouldn´t be any 45° angle except for the “set square®”. No?
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On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Frank wrote:
Seems I´m lost in translation - but I thought the thread starter
didn´t want a isosceles triangle but a rectangular one and there
shouldn´t be any 45° angle except for the “set square®”. No?
No: The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180º. We allocate 90º for
the angle that the OP wanted to be a right angle which leaves 90º for
the other two angles which, since the OP wanted the triangle to be
isosceles, must be both equal to 45º.
I think that the difficulty is that we do not look at our triangle in
the same position.
I look at the vertex with the 90º angle as being at the TOP. Then, on
the one hand, I go SW from the top and on the other hand, back again
from the top, I now go SE. The basis of the triangle is thus West-
East at the BOTTOM.
TOP
/
SW / SE
/
o–––––––---o
basis
The top angle is 45º SW + 45º SE = 90º
I am going to try to attach a pdf.
On 1 Jul 2011, 2:10 pm, Mike Adams wrote:
I may be missing something obvious (pop-up menu?), but I can only create isosceles triangles, and would like to make right-angled ones.
Well - I´m a qualified designer and know my maths - but where did he say he wants a isosceles triangle?
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5273/trisg.jpg
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On Jul 2, 2011, at 4:09 AM, Frank wrote:
I can only create isosceles triangles, and would like to make
right-angled ones.
I had assumed that “ones” referred to “isosceles triangles”. My mistake.
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On 2 Jul 2011, 8:41 am, IanB wrote:
- Draw a rectangle (R key)
- Switch to the Point Selection tool (X key)
- Select one point
- Press Delete or Backspace. The rectangle becomes a right-angled triangle.
Fantastic! That’s the sneaky sort of thinking I was hoping for.
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