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1.Before starting your tessellations you need to have all the toolbars on your screen.
2. If you haven’t got the Draw toolbar then go to View – Toolbars –Drawing or click on the Drawing button in the Standard toolbar.
3.Students will need to learn how to tear of floating Menus.
4. Click on the AutoShapes button, click on Basic Shapes and then click on the bar at the top of the menu and drag, it will float and you can drag it anywhere you like on the screen.
Other menus you may have to drag onto the screen are
Step Four:1.Duplicate that new triangle again and move it into place2.Duplicate more triangles and see how they fit into a pattern.3. If you want to duplicate or flip more than one shape at a time
do thisa.Click on one triangle and then hold down the Shift key and
select the other triangles, they will all have white handles around them, once they are all selected duplicate or flip them together.
3. You will need to use the Rotate button or the green
rotate circle on the shape
4.Can you translate these shapes?
Hint: if you have put your triangles around the hexagon you will need to group them so that they all move as one shape. Click on one shape, hold down your Shift key and select all the other shapes. Go to Draw – Group.
Hold down the Shift Key (option for Mac) when dragging a shape onto the page, it will be perfectly proportional.
Hold down the Ctrl Key (option for Mac) and click and drag on a shape and it will duplicate, keep clicking and dragging on the new shape and it will duplicate.
To drag several objects together, click on one, hold down the Shift key and then click on all the other shapes, they will all be selected. Click in the middle of one shape and drag them all at the same time.
Another way to select all of the objects together is to click on the Select Objects button on the Draw Toolbar and then click and drag the mouse around the group of shapes.
Press the Ctrl D Key (Apple D for Mac) when duplicating a shape. If you don’t click anywhere else, after duplicating but stay selected on that new shape, move it into place and then Ctrl D that one, the computer will remember the exact distance to place it and will move it directly in line with the previous shape.
Use the 3D menu button on the Draw toolbar to add a 3 dimensional view to your tessellations.
The AutoShapes menu has more choices when you click on More AutoShapes.
Tessellations are quick to make once you have your main pattern organised. Select the entire main pattern, group it by going to Draw-Group, now it is one single graphic, duplicate it and move it into place.