Spreadsheet Tool — Planning a 5 or 6 sided mid

Excellent spreadsheet, Jordo.  Was just reading through your tipi build on Reddit and saw the link to BPL so I figured I’d come over here and check out the usefulness of the sheet.  I saved a copy for myself although being the owner of both a Ti Goat tipi and a Golite Shangri-La 3 I’m not sure if I’ll ever bother to sew my own.

I just stumbled across this looking for help in building my 6-sided pyramid, similar to the one you showed in the earlier thread. Can you explain what Pattern (L) and Pattern (H) mean? My understanding of constructing a 6-sided ‘mid is to cut six congruent isosceles triangles… I just don’t know the height of those triangles. Any help?

Dang…I’m really late to respond to this. I’m sorry for that, David. You probably don’t still need the answer but I’ll give it for anybody else in the future:

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Tent (W) 108.00 in
Tent (L) 93.53 in
Tent (H) 78.00 in

Tent (W) – widest measurement of the floor through the center-point
Tent (L) – narrowest measurement of the floor through the center-point
Tent (H) – The “peak height” of a completed tipi

…in an odd-sided tipi you end up with the “points” and “sides” always opposite one-another so the (L) and (W) measurements would be equal.
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Pattern(W) 54.00 in
Pattern(L) 94.87 in
Pattern(H) 90.95 in

Pattern(W) – width of each size of the N-sided pyramid (“ground edge” for each panel)
Pattern(L) – measurement from the center of “ground edge” to the top of the tipi
Pattern(H) is the measurement from a corner of “ground edge” to the tip of the tipi