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Distance Across Corners

Command path:  Tools->Distance Across Corners
The purpose of this tool is to determine the diameter of a circle that circumscribes a regular polygon of a specified height and with N  number of sides.  The tool also determines the diameter of the circle inscribed within the polygon.

The Distance Across Corners tool is shown below:



Instructions for entering the polygon's metrics are shown at the top of the tool.  Below the instructions are fields for entering the polygon's height and number of sides.  Images of the polygon and the circles are drawn below the Height  and Sides  fields.  The diameters of the outer (circumscribed) and inner (inscribed) circles are shown below the images.

The images are redrawn and the diameters are calculated when either the Height  or the Sides  field has the focus and the Enter  key is pressed.  The Tab  key may also be used.

Figure 16 illustrates how the polygon's height is determined.  The height must be greater than 0.  The number of sides must be greater than or equal to 3 and must be a whole number.

Figure 16