Drawing a cube with Maple

Note:  The commands that I needed to type are those that follow the symbol ">".  Pay particular attention to square brackets, parentheses, colons, and semicolons.

The following commands load in some useful packages.

>	with(plots): with(plottools):

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Draw a good diagram of the cube on paper first.  Determine the coordinates of the eight vertices.

>	p1:=[0,0,0]; p2:=[1,0,0]; p3:=[0,1,0]; p4:=[1,1,0]; p5:=[0,0,1]; p6:=[1,0,1]; p7:=[0,1,1]; p8:=[1,1,1];

Define a cube by giving the vertices for each square face, in the order that they appear around the square.

>	c:=polygonplot3d([ [p1,p2,p4,p3], [p5,p6,p8,p7], [p1,p2,p6,p5], [p3,p4,p8,p7], [p1,p3,p7,p5], [p2,p4,p8,p6]],color=yellow):

Display the result.  You can click and drag it to turn it around and view it from different directions.

>	display(c,scaling=constrained);

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