I was looking at another thread, and in trying to solve it for the poster, discovered it is rather difficult to form an array of circles of a given diameter to meet at just their tangents. Yes, I’m aware that SketchUp doesn’t have true circles, so don’t preach that to me, please. The diameter does…

Okay, how about this, using the original radius of .52m. [tire%20pie]

[image] jimhami42: 15, 12, 8, and 5 If the OP wants those numbers, something tells me to make them nest inside each other “tangent” they would either all have to be odd or equal numbers…

Everyone here rocks! That is a perfect example of what the guy wanted! Too bad he probably won’t bother to learn or follow this! But I sure did!

I think he wanted to now how many cubic meters of sand he needed to fill them.

That makes more sense to me then.

That would be true, but the OP, is apparently very new to SU.

Shall we pass the collection plate now? :slight_smile:

I already gave you my 2 cents! :wink:

there would also be sand in the void underneath the tires. (guessing)

Determining the diameter of a circle for an array of circles

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jimhami42 February 18, 2018, 2:52am 25

Here’s everything merged into a single solid … subtract the volume of one tire times 40 and the result is the amount of sand needed.

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Determining the diameter of a circle for an array of circles

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