3D Rotation Shapes in Visio 2007 or 2010

[JuneTheSecond]

From more complicated concave polygon.

[JuneTheSecond]

I think I met the limit of my method.
This is an example that it is very difficult to fix z-order of the faces.

[JuneTheSecond]

I've added macro to adjust z-order of side faces of 3D shape.
Right-click menu can adjust z-order semi-automatically,
and selection of 2 overlapping faces can swap z-order manually.
Attached drawing has the detailed description with examples
and the macro to adjust z-order, and of course with macro
to generate 3D shape.

[vojo]

june....this is great stuff

you ought to think about prettying this up and making it an addon
   - allow user to set depth of each manifold
   - allow user to set color of each manifold
   - export as a 2D bit map for others who dont have addon / or use addon for details work and use resulting shape elsewhere

maybe a simple spreadsheet....or...a addon shape sheet kind of thing

really cool stuff!!!

[JuneTheSecond]

Thank you for your suggestion.
I would begin from the exportation as gif images.
Attached Visio drawing has a macro to export 3D shapes as 24 gif images
that have different rotation angle by 15 degrees.

[JuneTheSecond]

For another type of polygon.

[JuneTheSecond]

I've added a macro that makes shading on 3D rotation shape.
You can change the inlet angles of light on the shape data table,
and can limit the maximum and minimum of luminance value on the table.
Default widest limit of luminunce is 0 to 240.
I hope you enjoy shading.

[JuneTheSecond]

Another type of shading on page 2.

[JuneTheSecond]

I found some mistakes in my shading macro.
Above shading macro was modified and replaced by new drawing with macro.
Also the animation images were replaced.

[JuneTheSecond]

Here are more 2 examples.

[JuneTheSecond]

And second image.

[JuneTheSecond]

And enjoy another types of shaded 3D shapes.

[JuneTheSecond]

Here is an example or animation gif.
Shaded on concaved 3D shapes.

[cliff50]

excellant ideas and creativity

[JuneTheSecond]

Here are 3D shapes for character like C, G and S.
A, B, O are my next target.
Please, wait.