Method for "folding paper" off axis?

[randyl]

Was hoping to model a Dodecahedron (don’t ask why)…
Does anyone have a way to rotate this green face about the common edge it shares with the red face (coincident)?
(It does not align with red greed/ blue SU axis.)
Also, any other tips for creating Platonic solids in SU?

Thanks!

[Box]

Click and drag the rotate tool to set the axis of rotation.

[RTCool]

@randyl

Also, any other tips for creating Platonic solids in SU?

Check out this post (which also links a video @TheOnlyAaron did on making a dodecahedron):

Ann Tyng's Platonic Solids Exercise

Aaron’s video on making a dodecahedron was great and got me inspired to make a SketchUp version of this old, dusty and broken model that’s been sitting on my shelf for years that I often thought about reconstructing in SketchUp: [Tyng Platonics] The model is left over from taking Ann Tyng’s class when I was in architecture school at Penn. She was very interested in platonic solids among other things, and this exercise relates a bunch of them by inscribing them inside each other. We referred…

Make three golden rectangles, one perpendicular to each of the three main axes, and then just connect the corners.

[randyl]

Thanks! Not sure why I could not lock onto this axis earlier…

[john_mcclenahan]

@randyl

Also, any other tips for creating Platonic solids in SU?

Try my extension Polyhedra from SketchUcation Extension Store (NOT the Extension Warehouse).

SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation

PS. Read the documentation for the extension on the SketchUcation site. That has examples for a couple of polyhedra, and links to other articles on constructing them.