Saturday, January 31, 2009
Frustrated
Right now I am extremely frustrated with Geometer's Sketchpad. I have been trying for a few days now to create custom tools and still cannot get it right. When trying to create a tool that will make a regular hexagon, all I can get to tool to do is draw a line segment. I thought I followed the directions from the help menu but simply keep coming up with line segments. Ahhhhh!!!! I'm about ready to give up the struggle except making tools would probably be useful in the future. With a full arsenal of tools, I'm sure I would be able do more in sketchpad. Plus, it would probably be something very useful to show my students when they use the program. So for now at least, I guess the battle continues. If it's not settled this afternoon, the situation might escalate into a war!
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Wish I could help, but you know more about the program than I do!
ReplyDeleteTS - When the programmers at Key updated this wonderful software to its current version the custom tools became much more difficult to manage (my thoughts). I too find them a pain in the rear end. My advise is to start with a completely new sketch and complete the steps very slowly and accurately, then copy and create the tool. It is a useful feature - good luck and let me know how it goes.
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