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Default Geometric shape programe

Excel is a very good host for drawing shapes in a very limited way, if that
makes sense! I'm not aware of a commercial package for your purposes with
Excel but not sure you need one, depending on what you want to do.

I appreciate computers may not be your thing but why not dip your toes in.
First activate Excel's drawing toolbar -

On the main Excel toolbar, View, Toolbars, select 'Drawing'

As well as the rectangle & oval click on Autoshapes basic shapes

After messing around for a while try 'grouping' shapes to make two or more
as a
single shape (hold shift while selecting multiple shapes, right click,
Group). Now you can format (eg colour), move, resize all as one.

Right click on shape's selection handles for other options such as 'Order'

Look at the rotate button, the 3D button (icon like a cube) and other things
on the Drawing toolbar.

Although as I said Excel drawing is limited particularly if you want to
rotate in 3 dimensions, then quite a lot of programming would be required.
However it's surprising what can be done within the limits of one's
imagination!

Regards,
Peter T

PS like your sculptures


"deadlyartichoke" wrote in message
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Hi there, I am a sculptor who works in metal/stainless steel and I ma
looking for a programme or package or whatever you might want to call
it that allows me to print and enlarge various geometric shapes....Does
any one know of such a thing if so I would love to know......not to
good at the computer thing more of an artist so please excuse me if I
have missed something obvious. Many thanks in advance The
Deadlyartichoke ( Stainless Steel Sculptures @ www.llamaseven.com )