topic Re: shallow dome in Profiler in Modeling

shallow dome in Profiler

Peter Bennison — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:01:22 GMT

I would like to make a shallow dome, and then cut out curved head wall shapes from it, like apses coming to meet in the crossing in a church. I thought that I could make the dome by spinning the half section dome profile around the central axis in the the old Goodie Profiler, but seem to have forgotten how it works. The AC instructions are not very clear.

Can't do it in complex profile wall either, seem to get the negative of what I'm looking for.

Any ideas anyone ?

Re: shallow dome in Profiler

Peter Bennison — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:54:32 GMT

Bon, kind of done it with circle wall tool and complex profile, need to work on removing facet lines now …

Re: shallow dome in Profiler

Dwight — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:07:59 GMT

Peter:

When making a fill using Profiler or the Complex Profile, you always need to work in the ++ quadrant: the upper right. You've "flipped the fill" to get a negative result.

The trick is to easily establish six sides. Do this by drawing a circle and using the magic wand set to six segments per circle in the wall tool.

Re: shallow dome in Profiler

Dwight — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:27:05 GMT

For the 'apsoids' make a beam complex profile [with a priority higher than the wall] and insert it partially.

Re: shallow dome in Profiler

Dwight — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:41:53 GMT

And here it is, round.