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shallow dome in Profiler

Peter Bennison
Contributor
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 ?

dome 101025.jpg
Archicad 21 FR MacBook 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i7 16Mo RAM MacOS Sierra
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Peter Bennison
Contributor
Bon, kind of done it with circle wall tool and complex profile, need to work on removing facet lines now …
dome 101025a.jpg
Archicad 21 FR MacBook 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i7 16Mo RAM MacOS Sierra
Dwight
Newcomer
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.
dome thing.jpg
Dwight Atkinson
Dwight
Newcomer
For the 'apsoids' make a beam complex profile [with a priority higher than the wall] and insert it partially.
Dwight Atkinson
Dwight
Newcomer
And here it is, round.
Dwight Atkinson