csousawy Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I'm looking for a tutorial on how to draw a geodesic dome in Vectorworks, specifically a V3 Geodesic Dome,any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 (edited) Here is Islandmon's thread about geodesic domes with a tutorial download, examples, and a script for creation of various grades(?) of domes: hth -B Edited January 8, 2018 by Marissa Farrell Update link Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted April 16, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 16, 2015 It depends on exactly what you need, but you may also want to give Surface Array a look: Quote Link to comment
csousawy Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Surface Array was what I looked at first, the problem with that is that for a true geodesic dome the triangles are not all the same size. I ended up downloading software that is specific to geodesic domes and exporting a SAT file and importing that to VW and tracing it with the 3D polygon tool and then doing an extrude along path. Quote Link to comment
Kaare Baekgaard Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 You can import all types of geodesic domes from 3D Warehouse. Quote Link to comment
csousawy Posted July 2, 2015 Author Share Posted July 2, 2015 I ended up designing it in AutoCAD Inventor. It was a pain, but the end result turned out well. You can check it out here: http://www.dancingastronaut.com/2015/06/deadmau5-debuts-new-mousetrap-inspired-stage-governors-ball-nyc/ Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 2, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 2, 2015 Excellent work! Quote Link to comment
stevenaia Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 (edited) I downloaded several geodesic domes (3v and 4v domes models) from 3d Warehouse for a project I am designing and am now past the schematic stage of my project. I would like to convert the 3d faces of the individual triangular panel lines into structural struts (2x8 framing members or tubes). Has anyone done this with a script? I was making headway constructing it with the few unique members and mirroring and rotating (changing the pitch, and rotation of the joists but it became more and more difficult by "hand". ) At some point I had to convert them to 3d solids so I could rotate the members and things went South from there. I wonder if a simple there's a way for someone (not me) to write a simple script that says...Oh look, there is the start and stopping points of a 3d line (or side of a 3d poly). Put those values into a framing member POI (or "structural member") and place it where the side of the panel are. Zip zip, done... right? (BTW, none of the links in this thread are active anymore) Edited January 6, 2018 by stevenaia Added image Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 > Perhaps it works with the surface array, Distribute a 3D Polyline or 3D Rectangle, ungroup, create a suitable Geometry as a Symbol, Assign Symbols to Objects. Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 @JimWislandmon’s old geodome thread seems deactivated (referenced above). Can you retrieve it? Maybe his script and info are still viable in recent versions. It was a super cool analysis and drafting for domes. thanks -B Quote Link to comment
Marionette Maven Marissa Farrell Posted January 8, 2018 Marionette Maven Share Posted January 8, 2018 @Benson Shaw I updated the reference link back to the post, but unfortunately I can't get the .zip to download on either the old version nor the new version. I did, however, make sure the image is on islandmon's post. Quote Link to comment
stevenaia Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Marissa, I see "www.fractalnet.org" is no longer accessible, but thanks for your efforts. Steve Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted January 8, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 8, 2018 8 hours ago, Benson Shaw said: @JimWislandmon’s old geodome thread seems deactivated (referenced above). Can you retrieve it? Maybe his script and info are still viable in recent versions. It was a super cool analysis and drafting for domes. thanks -B The thread itself works: (Unless I'm misunderstanding which one you mean)https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/28740-geodesic-symbol-with-31-great-circle-arcs/&tab=comments#comment-140734 However it seems to like somewhere that is no longer active and was not stored on the old forums directly. Quote Link to comment
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