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Net Shapes
If you had a 3D paper shape selotaped together at the seams, and then you pulled all
the selotape off and laid the piece of paper out flat, you'd then have a
NET of the model.
In 'Shapes and Nets' you can draw lots of common 3D shapes, and the
computer then 'un-tapes' them and lays them out flat to reveal the
different net shapes.
Print the net shapes to make
3D paper models, make boxes for a new package. The nets also have tabs added to aid construction of the model. |
dice net net of a dice |
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Here are some examples of the nets of shapes
found in 'Shapes and Nets'. When Nets are initially displayed,
they are automatically arranged neatly on the paper making it nice and
simple for younger users, but you can still make changes by scaling,
moving and rotating each one. All the nets can have a different colour
or an image on each face.
The triangular based prism nets,
sphere, square based pyramid net and hexagonal prism net below have been
rendered with images, and the bottom row of nets show a couple of the
models found in the street activity. There are lots more nets in 'Shapes
and Nets' and children become quite familiar with them as they carry out
the different activities. It often takes just a simple exercise for a
point to be driven home, take the dice activity for example, children
are familiar with a dice, and so when they see a
dice net suddenly it all makes sense! |
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"Shapes & Nets is without a doubt a
meaningful, well thought-out, well-written and easy to use software. Thank you."
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