Creating pyramids
To start the Pyramid command, you can type the PYRAMID
command name (or just PYR
) and then press Enter. Alternatively, you can click on the Pyramid button found in the Create panel in the 3D Basics workspace. If you are using the 3D Modeling workspace, you will find the Pyramid button in the Modeling panel under the Home tab, or in the Primitive panel under the Solid tab, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 11.40: Alternative methods to start the Pyramid command
After starting the command, to create a pyramid using the default settings, perform the following steps:
- Choose a location and click to specify the center point of the pyramid base.
- In the default method, you specify a radius for a circle, and a square base is created, circumscribed about that circle. You can specify the radius using the mouse cursor. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard to enter the radius value and then press Enter.
- Move the mouse cursor...