Irregular Hexagon (and other) shapes?

[JessicaGoodlin]

I am trying to generate an irregular hexagon in photoshop.

One side is 4cm
two sides are 1cm.
two sides are 2.6cm
and the last side is 3cm

Is there a way to easily change the side lengths of a hexagon in photoshop?

[Michael J. Hoffman]

Hi Jessica,

No, there's no way to create irregular polygon sides in Photoshop using the polygon shape tool. You'll have to construct the shape geometrically the old fashioned way.

Note that if you require very price coordinates, you can create horizontal and vertical guides and then snap to them when drawing.

View > New Guide...

Horizontal or Vertical

Use "cm" or "mm" instead of "px" to place it in a numeric position.

Mike

[pixxxelschubser]

Hi JessicaGoodlin​,

like Mike said before …

But one note:

you have to define one angle as minimum. Otherwise you have hundreds of possibilities to create your hexagon. (One angle should restrict this to less than 10 options.)

[Trevor.Dennis]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/pixxxel+schubser  wrote

Hi JessicaGoodlin ,

like Mike said before …

But one note:

you have to define one angle as minimum. Otherwise you have hundreds of possibilities to create your hexagon. (One angle should restrict this to less than 10 options.)

If you assume that the polygon will be symmetrical.  Using the 120° from a standard hexagon as the base works well, but you'd definitely need more information than just the sides.  Minimum, or maximum possible area/volume for instance, or as you say, a couple of angles.

[EDIT] Hah!  I can immediately see I made the constructing rectangle half what it should be!

[Trevor.Dennis]

[pixxxelschubser]

Happy creating

[pixxxelschubser]

Or non geometric:

Take a rope and knot it. Perimeter = (2 × 2.6) + (2 × 1) + 4 + 3 = 14.2

Mark the lengths with a red pencil. Fix the marked areas with a pin.

Mark the lengths in a different order with a blue pencil. Fix the marked areas with a pin.

Mark the lengths in a different order with a green pencil. Fix the marked ...

[davescm]

It's an awful job trying to get those pins out of your screen though ..... 

Dave

[pixxxelschubser]

I hope you have a few screens in reserve.

[Norman Sanders]

Converting it to a shape should provide some flexibility

[davescm]

Make a construction out of circular shapes with an additional line from the centre to the edge

You can size, rotate and position these as required (as pixxxel schubser said - you need angles to narrow it down and can enter them into the options bar when you transform rotate)

Then use the pen tool to create a new shape over the centres

Finally switch off visibility of the construction circles

Dave