Construction a Golden Rectangle

[ss-kalm]

... This construction does rely on a steady hand as there is no snap for the circle radius.

If you draw the original square on a grid, rather than clone and change to circle, you can just draw a circle radius from the centre of the bottom to the top corner and snap to the grid points though ...

[Acorn]

If you draw the original square on a grid, rather than clone and change to circle, you can just draw a circle radius from the centre of the bottom to the top corner and snap to the grid points though ...

Cheers Keith, that is a good remedy. I will although still look for one that doesn't have a dimension constraint.

Found one!

1. Create a Red square.
2. Half its width.
3. Clone it, colour it Green.
4. Change the Red square to editable Shapes and delete its top left corner.
5. Position the red triangle to the top right of the Green rectangle.
6. Rotate it about this point so its longest edge it horizontal.
7. Clone the Green rectangle, colour it Blue.
8. Drag its right edge to the right end of the Red triangle.

Acorn

[ss-kalm]

[*]Rotate it about this point so its longest edge it horizontal.

How do you ensure that it's horizontal?

[Acorn]

How do you ensure that it's horizontal?

Oops! Thanks Keith. Just hold down the Ctrl key when rotating (the shape, not yourself).

Acorn