Drawing using Rhino

Dr. Eng. Samuel, ST, MT

Click on the polygon tool long enough so that the
underlying options flow out. Click and drag on the blue top
and drag it away from the toolbar. Release it. Now the
toolbar stays visible all the time.

Click on the Polygon:edge button. Since we know the

length of the triangles edge, we choose this tool. Try the
others as well to see what the difference is.

Now you need to place the starting point. Turn on grid

snap (if not already on). Click with the cursor in the 0,0,0
point on the grid in the top viewport.
Then turn on 'end' object snap too,
and move to the 0,0,0 point, where
the end point of the triangle is
located. Snap to that end point and
click.
Click on the circle tool as shown.
The last point needs to lay on the circle, but to ensure a nice transition later on, we need to locate
the tangent point relative to the lines starting point. To do this, turn on object snap and select 'tan'
(turn off 'cen' to avoid snapping to the center point).
• We will copy/rotate them two times by using the polar array function.
• Go to transform/array/polar. You already selected the objects you want to array, so the command line will
automatically ask you for the center point of the array. With end snap on, click on the corner of our two lines.
• Then enter the number of times we want to copy the objects. In this case, enter 3.
• Then enter 360 so the polar array will be built over 360° (a full circle).
Hide triangle using tool button to hide

use trim to cut away the inner parts. Join these curves into a single curve.
While all curves are still selected,
click the join button to attach all
segments to each other.
click the join button to attach all segments to each other.
Draw a circle with radius 9 on the corners of the triangle
Use the polyline tool to draw a line from the center point,
15 units long, downwards. This is a guide for our next
circle.

Use end snap to draw the small circle with radius 4.

use trim to cut away the inner parts. Join these curves into a single curve.
Use polar array to place this shape in the other 2 places.
Fillet all the sharp corners by clicking on the two lines that
make up a corner.
Again draw a triangle with and edge length of 18.5 units.
Fillet the corners with a radius of 3.
Experiment with some extrusions and boolean operations
to make a 3d shape out of it.