How to Make a Octagon

Shapes are the important theme in Geometry. In geometry, the shapes that are enclosed shapes are said to be polygons. The type of polygon is divided on the basis of its sides. Octagon is a polygon which has eight sides. There are two types of octagon. They are regular octagon and irregular octagon. In this article, we shall discuss to make a regular octagon. Also we shall discuss to make irregular octagon.

Learn how to make a regular octagon:

• Step 1: At first, make a vertical line PQ.

• Step 2: Octagon has 135degree as its interior angle. We can use protector to mark 135° on both sides of the line PQ and mark it as R and S. Make the lines from P to R and Q to S. PR and QS are the line that has the same length of PQ.

• Step 3: Mark 135degree from R and name it as T. And from S, take 135° and mark it as U. Now make the line from R to T and S to U. The length of RT and SU must be similar to the length of PQ.

• Step 4: Make 135° from T and name it as V. Make 135° from U and name it as W. Draw  line from T to V and U to W.

• Step 5: Now make a line from V to W.

Lastly the regular octagon can be attaining as shown in the figure. This is how we can make a regular octagon.

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Learn how to make irregular octagon:

An eight sided enclosed shape forms an irregular octagon. Now we shall draw an irregular octagon.

• Step 1: Make a line and name it as PQ.

• Step 2: Make another line from P.

• Step 3: Correspondingly draw eight lines.

We can attain an irregular octagon as revealed in the figure. The irregular octagon should have eight sides. But it can be drawn in any form.