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- 2PBOX Menu: (POLYG) PRISM
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- Creates a rectangular solid prism or a (2D) rectangular polygon, given base
- plane, two opposite corners and height.
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- 1. * (CHAR) plane of base rectangle (x-xy,y-yz,z-zx)<x>
- 2. * (POINT) first point
- 3. * (POINT) opposite point
- for option `x':
- 4. * (NUM) height of prism
- for options `y' or `z':
- 4. * (NUM) width of prism
- for all options:
- 5. * (Y/N) positive prism? <y>
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- Description:
- This command creates a rectangular (2D) polygon or a rectangular solid prism
- based on that polygon.
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- Choose a plane for the base polygon: x xy plane (the default), y yz plane or
- z xz plane, and pick two points representing diagonally opposite corners of
- the base. Specify the height (or width) of the prism (you may enter 0 for a 2D
- polygon), enter `y' for a positive prism (the default), or `n' for a negative
- one.
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- Example: \2pbox x 0 0 0 4 4 0 3 y
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- Result: A 4 by 4 by 3 rectangular prism is created with its lower-left corner
- at the point 0 0 0.