Equilateral Triangles

[Anton Peck]

Here's one for you that a lot of programs don't seem to get right:
Perfect Triangles

 

Every so often, I need to create a triangle in a layout. It would be fantastic if the triangle was based on a true equilateral shape, where each side where the same length (rather than building a triangle based on a square, which results in two sides that are longer).

 

Additionally, Even when I can create a proper triangle with resizing one dimension by about 86%, the central rotation point is still mis-placed.

 

I've sketched something up so that you can see what I mean.

 

Thanks!

Anton

 

 

 

 

[Andy Somerfield]

Hi,

 

Try using a Polygon Shape - but set the number of sides to 3 :)

 

AndyS

[Anton Peck]

Indeed, that's exactly it! Thank you.  :D

[peter]

+1

[jordanskole]

I came here in search of this. The "play button" is my benchmark test for a graphics app. Now that we have the triangle constructed -- how do we place the triangle inside a circle such that however the triangle is rotated, the nodes remain the same distance from the bounding circle. 

http://note.io/1vGOxZp

Edit: Derp! I get it, I was still aligning the triangle via bounding box, and not by the rotational center of the object. Is there an easy way to align the object by its rotational center?