Making a hexagon in SU

[Dave Tinley]

I know this shouldnt be difficult, and maybe because its late, I cant get it right
I am trying to make a equal sided hexagon to lay out a table top. I tried using the 60 degrees on the compass, but cant get all 6 sides to come out even.
Any help is appreciated.

Dave

[Jamie Buxton]

SU has polygon-drawing tool. The icon looks like a triangle. Select the tool, and type the number of sides you want, and hit Enter. The tool will then make polygons of that order.

[Dave Tinley]

Thanks guys, duh, I guess I am getting to old to be up late.

[Galen Tieszen]

Another option --

Since a circle is simply a 24 sided polygon, you can draw a circle, then select the perimeter and right click to the context menu. Select "Entity Info" and change the "segments" to however many sides you want the polygon to have -- 8 for a hexagon, 5 for a pentagon, etc., and the circle changes to the polygon you defined. You can also use this to make a smoother circle by increasing the number of segments in the circle, but you will take a performance hit if you go too far.

GT

[Matt Day]

There's a neat little step-by-step animation on wikipedia on how to make one too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon