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Drawing a cylinder or a rhomboid in Pages

How can I draw a cylinder or a rhomboid in Pages either of which I can drag to change size ie as per Word?

Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 11:54 AM

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Feb 14, 2013 12:31 PM in response to PaulSG

Here is a cylinder made from two circles and a rectangle with use of the graphic and metric inspectors. Once you have grouped all three scaled and layered objects, you can scale and rotate the finished object. Not a true drawing tool, so no lines of perspective effect. You can use image and gradient fills from the inspector to further tweak your creations into more realistic quality.


Front circle: 0.89 inch in diameter.

Back circle: 0.86 inch in diameter.

Rectangle: 1.25 inch wide x 0.89 high.


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Feb 14, 2013 10:34 PM in response to PaulSG

Hi Paul,


Yes - I tried that too and built one but it's not editable - not in the same way as Word for instance.


Page 147 of the Pages User Guide:


Editing Shapes

You can manipulate and reshape the points and contours of a shape you’ve already placed on a page. Before you can edit a shape in this way, you need to make it editable.


Thanks anyway - guess I'll have to use word and copy/paste.



It took me 5 minutes to browse the User Guide and turn a rectangle into a parallelogram:

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And I have never before tried this in Pages.


Too easy!


Regards, Ian.


Message was edited by: Yellowbox Sorry, shape not pasting. But it is causing interesting layout of text!

Feb 15, 2013 1:55 AM in response to Yellowbox

Wow, a veritable torrent of responses!Thanks all. (..though I don't quite understand fruhulda's point)


However!! I am aware of the User Guide info and the selection of "make editable" but has anyone tried rotating and/or extending the rhomboid in relation to, say, an oblique view of a flat surface? (For example when drawing a building diagram showing a beam coming off a vertical wall.)

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Feb 15, 2013 3:57 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Peter,

I can't wait to see images of your solution.


Paul,

You have me beaten. I tried every way (including searching the User Guide 😉) to stretch an oblique view of a beam *at the same angle* whilst *constraining* the vertical and horizontal dimensions.


I tried it in Pages and Integlio app. No go.


The best I could do in Pages was this:


Step 1. recreate your first image:


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Step 2. Add 8 (shorter, red) lines over the black lines:

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Step 3. Delete the black lines

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This is your working pattern.

Group the bits belonging to the object on the right, then drag that group up and to the right.

Add black lines to join the 2 ends and to act as guides so you can drag the right hand end into alignment.

Delete red lines.


Phew! If the drawing tools in Word can stretch a beam as you have shown, I am mightily impressed!


Ian

Drawing a cylinder or a rhomboid in Pages

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