Math formula for hexagon

[Stefan Bengtsson]

Nah, I'm starting to suspect I'm on the wrong track. But now I've also specified the thickness of the timber I'm using around the well here.

If then Tan = opposite side / adjacent side.

The side should be the radius in this case???

50.3 / 50.3... I'm hopeless said the grasshopper without one leg...

The hypotenuse is the radius. One of the sides is the height of the triangle. The other side is half the length of the triangle's side.

I'm stopping here. The thread creator has received an answer to their question.

/Stefan

 

[Forrest]

Ok, thanks for the input. I just wished that the figure be set up with the numbers now provided.

Radius 50.3 (including board covering)

Tan 30 = X/50.3

X = ? I can't for the life of me understand how to find the value of X here...

But, well, I'll probably never get this so I understand the thread is being closed:blushing:

 

[byggankan]

You get it by using a calculator that can compute with trigonometric formulas. And if it is as I assumed in my first post that the radius is the hypotenuse and as Stefab Bengtsson writes above, you should use sine instead of tangent.

If you google trigonometry, you can read more.

 

[Stefan Bengtsson]

Ok, thanks for the input. I just wish the number is set up with the figures provided.

Radius 50.3 (including board cladding)

Tan 30 = X/50.3

X = ? I can't for the life of me understand how to get the value of X here...

But, but I guess I'll never get this so I understand the thread is being closed:blushing:

tan 30 * 50.3 = 29.04.
29.04 * 2 = 58.08.

The side of the hexagon is therefore 58.08. If you count with a 45 mm stud, and a 28 mm board outside of that.

/Stefan

 

[Stefan Bengtsson]

Forrest!!

Sorry! I see now that it's you who created the thread! :blushing:
It's obviously not up to me to decide if you've got an answer. Keep asking until you get an answer that you are satisfied with.

/Stefan

 

[Forrest]

Yay, I now have a calculator where these functions have been mastered. d^_^b

Hehe... with your help, I might even become a math professor in the construction forum.

Thank you for your patience.