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how to draw a sphere?

Anonymous
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Hi, I'm a second year undergraduate student majoring in architecture, and for my current project, I am designing a three-story multi-spherical building. I was wondering how I could draw such a building in ArchiCAD. Since the building is a sphere, that means all of the floors have different areas, which I could draw on the separate stories, but how would I connect all the floors while forming a smooth spherical surface. Also, I am using a steel geodesic structural system for my design, is there anyway I could show that with ArchiCAD such as with a certain material or something?

Thank you in advance.
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Djordje
Virtuoso
IggyJoestar wrote:
And, I don't know what type of architecture you like particularly, but I myself am quite interested in seeing what will become of Rem Koolhaas's "Deathstar" project in Dubai, which is also a "sphere"-shaped building.
Well ...

As the recent trend is to cancel projects because the off plan sales did not generate enough in order to pay for daily rising prices, and the delays eat away at the coffers, I am also very interested to see what is going to happen to the Death star ...
Djordje



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