Stud.io triangle hinged plates

[Medzomorak]

Hey guys. I'm experimenting in stud.io with off-grid positioning. I'm trying to create this triangle base with plate hinges. Obviously I'd need an equilateral triangle within so the designer would accept the hinge connections perfectly.

I've couldn't manage to do it manually, is there some convenient way to do this?

Edited March 12, 2020 by Medzomorak

[Slegengr]

@Medzomorak You should be able to calculate and set the angle for the hinges before connecting to the plates.  The complication here is that the software will only hinge one location at a time, where you would need to adjust all three together at the same time in reality.  If you set the hinge connection to 60 degrees on the internal equilateral triangle before connecting the plates, you should be able to connect all three plates without a problem.

The way I would do this would be to add the hinge connection to the left-most plate with the hinge in the 1X4 plate position (0 degrees hinged), set the angle of the hinge to 60 degrees for the internal equilateral triangle, copy the plate and angled hinge plates together, then paste in the remaining two groups of plate and angled hinge plates and attach them to the previous hinge connection.  This will maintain the angle relation of the hinge plates set on the first group and should come out perfectly.

Edited March 12, 2020 by Slegengr
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[heyitsdisty]

To add to @Slegengr's excellent post above; you may not be aware that you can manually type in the angle when using the Hinge tool. (Took me about a year to figure out you could do it!)

Rather than clicking and dragging the blue hinge arrow, click it once, then click inside the box where the angle is displayed in degrees. You can now type the desired angle into the box.

[Medzomorak]

Victory.

Thanks @Slegengr and @heyitsdisty good Sirs for the great ideas how to start and the tip about adding the angle with manual input. Used them both to achieve this glorious build. 

Edited March 12, 2020 by Medzomorak