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Hi Jessica,
No, there's no way to create irregular polygon sides in Photoshop using the polygon shape tool. You'll have to construct the shape geometrically the old fashioned way.
Note that if you require very price coordinates, you can create horizontal and vertical guides and then snap to them when drawing.
View > New Guide...
Horizontal or Vertical
Use "cm" or "mm" instead of "px" to place it in a numeric position.
Mike
https://forums.adobe.com/people/pixxxel+schubser wrote
Hi JessicaGoodlin ,
like Mike said before …
But one note:
you have to define one angle as minimum. Otherwise you have hundreds of possibilities to create your hexagon. (One angle should restrict this to less than 10 options.)
If you assume that the polygon will be symmetrical. Using the 120° from a standard hexagon as the base works well, but you'd definitely need more information than just the sides. Minimum, or maximum possible area/volume for instance, or as you say, a couple of angles.
[EDIT] Hah! I can immediately see I made the constructing rectangle half what it should be!
I hope you have a few screens in reserve.
Make a construction out of circular shapes with an additional line from the centre to the edge
You can size, rotate and position these as required (as pixxxel schubser said - you need angles to narrow it down and can enter them into the options bar when you transform rotate)
Then use the pen tool to create a new shape over the centres
Finally switch off visibility of the construction circles
Dave
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