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RoderickT - March 2009Wingeom - BasicsPage : 1
Wingeom - Basics
for preparing geometric diagrams for the web
I am developing a web site explaining various mathematical processes that interest me. As partof this exercise I need to draw many geometric diagrams,and I tried several tools, including
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Open Office Draw
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Serif DrawPlus
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Paint.Net
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Google SketchupBut in the end decided to use
Wingeom
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Wingeom
This fascinating program was developed by a teacher (R D Parris I think) at Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, NH USA and appears to still be active. You can download for free fromhttp://math.exeter.edu/rparris/wingeom.htmlThere are other related programs that are also distributed free under the name of Peanuts Software.I expect that I will also be using their Winplot program.
Reason for document 
I often find I can spend some hours of work determining how to do some action or other andwhen I want to do it again some week or months later, cannot remember how I did it and haveto spend the same time figuring it out again.So now I have developed the practise of recording things as I do them, this may take the form of 
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Taking a screen shot
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Entry in blog
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Page onweb site
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PDF documentThe above is in ascending order of difficulty and/or size.This is the first document I have written for Wingeom and will add to it as I learn more in oneof the above four ways, and link them all together through myMaths Tools for WebDevelopmentBlog. It is basically an annotated collection of screen shots.
 
RoderickT - March 2009Wingeom - BasicsPage : 2
Wingeom has a two phase startup.First screen contains a tip, which I read and thenclose.You need to select either 2 or 3 dimensionaldrawing.To date I have not needed 3D, so selectWindows -> 2D.
Note:
In typical Windows fashion if there is ashortcut key it is shown in the menu. In this caseit is
F2
This is the standard work window of Wingeom. It can be resized in the usual windowsmethod by dragging its side or corners.
 
RoderickT - March 2009Wingeom - BasicsPage : 3
In the process of drawing you often need to switch to various modes. Thiscan be achieved by selecting the Btns menu, but I prefer to have thismenu open as a toolbox which can be achieved by selecting the Toolbar option in the Btns menu.I then drag this toolbar just off to the right of the Wingeom window.The x,y axes can be turned onand off.
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