3D Rotation Shapes in Visio 2007 or 2010

JuneTheSecond · December 21, 2012, 11:50:40 PM

From more complicated concave polygon.

JuneTheSecond · December 22, 2012, 11:47:36 AM

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 · December 27, 2012, 10:39:39 AM

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 · December 28, 2012, 05:07:38 AM

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 · December 28, 2012, 12:16:34 PM

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 · December 29, 2012, 06:21:21 AM

For another type of polygon.

JuneTheSecond · January 07, 2013, 04:33:01 AM

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 · January 07, 2013, 04:34:26 AM

Another type of shading on page 2.

JuneTheSecond · January 08, 2013, 11:05:07 AM

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 · January 08, 2013, 01:34:02 PM

Here are more 2 examples.

JuneTheSecond · January 08, 2013, 01:35:37 PM

And second image.

JuneTheSecond · January 09, 2013, 01:50:23 AM

And enjoy another types of shaded 3D shapes.

JuneTheSecond · January 09, 2013, 01:53:37 AM

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

cliff50 · January 09, 2013, 03:57:25 AM

excellant ideas and creativity

JuneTheSecond · January 11, 2013, 11:05:05 AM

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