Dice Design

You are going to model a dice and put the numbers an all 6 sides.

Instructions:

1. Start a new Standard ipt. (RC on desktop (on the “graph paper”), see that Snap to Grid is checked).

2. Sketch a square using Two point rectangle.

3.

a. Click line

b. Click to place dimention.

c. Click on number to edit length.

d. hit the check or Enter

Use General Dimension [D] to make the sides 1in by 1in.

4.

Finish the sketch and Extude the Profile 1 inch.

5. Start a new Sketch on one side and draw a small circle on the center of the face, finish the sketch, and extrude the circle with a Cut. Type the distance as 0.02 in.

Abreviations and Vocabulary:

RC –Right Click.

General Dimension. Shortcut: [D]

Snap to Grid.

6. Now go to the next side, and

repeat from Step 5 with 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 dots. (the opposite sides are supposed to add up to 7)

Extension.

Now Design a dice with a different number of sides. There are many different ways to do this (see

Websites:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/LiveGraphics3DApplets.html

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dice-play/DicePolyMath.htm

http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/pyth1.htm

http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/pyth2.htm