Carbon-60 structure

[xu3902]

Hello everyone,

Anyone knows how to draw the carbon-60 structure by using AutoCad Cilvil 3D 2012?

[dgordon]

A little more information might be helpful.   a picture, maybe some description of what carbon 60 is and what you want to show.  

[xu3902]

Thank you for reminding me. Here it is.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/C60a.png

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

I used the commands:

• _POLYGON (some with 5, some with 6 sides)
• _ARRAY (and EXPLODE if you use 2012 as I did)
• _REGION (to convert the polylines from command _POLYGON to renderable objects)
• _MIRROR (to duplicate the bottom half, may be not necessary, _COPY may be enough)
• _ALIGN (to align the mirrored objects on top of the first half construction)

[EDIT] I forgot a great command!

• _UCS

[/EDIT] 😉

And on the beginning I have to get the angle for how much do the first hexagons to be rotated upwards.

Please find info's to the commands (and options available within the commands) >>>here<<<

Good luck, - alfred -