Apologies - forgot I had posed 2 questions ...
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DIY maths/trig
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Only a total wanker like you would disagree with making a scale drawing before building.
Suggests you have never built anything in your life.
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we all agree those are the answers to the two implied questions
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Radius or diameter?
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Good point - we all assumed diameter...
because under no conceivable scenario is the radius equal to the width..
Or in fact the depth...
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Diameter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(sound of gunshot. Jethro_uk leaves planet earth ;) )
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You correctly corrected my schoolboy error ;)
:)
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Anyway, if you meant diameter, & I'm visualizing what you mean correctly, the layout is half of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle with Ø 1.5 m. The half-hexagon is 1.5 m wide across corners, & consists of 3 equilateral triangles with 0.5 m sides. So each bay panel (assuming a perfect panel of 0 thickness!) is 0.5 m wide, & the panel parallel to the end of the existing structure is 0.25 tan 60° =
0.433 m away.If you meant radius, double all those.
Am I right?
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Wow - I've real respect for anyone who can DIY a space cannon in homage to Jules Verne/the Baltimore Gun Club :)
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I think most of us can still do sums - it is the methods that get rather rusty over the tears :-)
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er, it was a hypothetical :)
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That's a bit of an overreaction at this stage of the project ... now if you built it using that as the radius on someone else's conservatory, you might have some apologies to make.
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To do it the medieval way without doing any calculations simply draw your s emicircle. Keep your compass at the same setting place the point where you want the first pane to start and describe an arc further along the semicirc le. Place the compass point at the intersection of the arc and semicircle a nd repeat the process a further two times. This will produce your 4 vertice s of your half hexagon. For a 1.5m semicircle this will as stated before pr oduce 75cm panes. "O" Technical Drawing.
Richard