Week 9: Drawing Domes

I've already done a bit of research on how domes are constructed so now its time to start drawing them for real.
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I went through so many iterations to try and get a workable dome, it was crazy. Partially it was because I was trying to draw them in solidworks one way, by constructing and dividing great circles, but the program didn't like it and it was way to trial and error.

Eventually I managed to trick solidworks into letting me draw a true icosahedron, for some reason binding points to the surface of a sphere and telling them to be equal distances from one another did not work. And with that I began to divide the curve section above one of the triangle faces, this did not work either.

Success came when I realised the key was to divide the flat triangle face of the icosahedron equally and project them out to the spheres surface.

This is where the problems really started.

With the partial dome sketch drawn I then tried numerous ways of adapting it to the building model. Which I shall continue in a future post.

Sources: [Original Works]