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The Right Angle Triangle is a closed, three-sided plate with one 90° corner. You set the length of the two sides that meet at the right angle; the third side (the hypotenuse) joins their ends. All three sides are straight lines with no corner radius. Use it for solid gussets and corner plates. For a triangle set by three side lengths use the Triangle shape; for a triangle with rounded corners use the Filleted Triangle; for the same triangle with a triangular cut-out leaving an even band on all three sides use the Triangle Gusset.

It appears in the shapes library under Basic Shapes and Triangles.

Insert point and direction

The insert point (Base X, Base Y) is the right-angle corner. The shape is built to the right and upward from there:

•The vertical side runs straight up (+Y) from the insert point for the Height.

•The horizontal side runs along +X from the insert point for the Width.

•The hypotenuse runs from the top of the vertical side down to the right-hand end of the horizontal side.

The outline is drawn from the insert point up the vertical side, down the hypotenuse and back along the base to the insert point (clockwise). The Height dimension is drawn beside the vertical side and the Width dimension along the base. To put the right angle in another corner, use Rotation or Mirroring X (see Transform).

Properties

Limits

•Width and Height cannot be negative; the property page rejects a value below 0 with a "Please enter a valid number" warning.

•A Width or Height of 0 is accepted but gives a flat outline with no area: the triangle collapses to a single line drawn back on itself. Enter both as positive values.

•The shape does not check its geometry itself. If building the outline raises an error, the property page shows the red bar "Warning: Cannot build shape from these parameters" and the outline may not be drawn.

Every 2D shape also has the Transform properties (Base X, Base Y, Rotation, Scale, Mirroring X) and the Polar Array properties, listed after the shape's own properties.