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johnar:

Not perhaps a geodesic dome, but a dome none the less.
 Did this one quickly, as described above.
 Not what you're after, but might inspire an alternative to cutting and joining solids.
 Just a thought, anim8or has some pretty cool modelling tools, and a reputation as one of the easier modellers to use. 

 

Old Codger:
Actually noodling with your suggestion now, johnar. Early results are encouraging. I just have to figure out how to apply one material to the "girders" and a different material to the transparent panels in between. I also want to play with the "shell" command/function. It could presumably help me build the fuselage for an attack craft I have in my mind's eye.

BTW, I do not know what the rules are but it would be a whole lot more efficient if you and I could take this conversation private - i.e. into email. If you're amenable it would help. Certainly speed things up. No sense cluttering up the community board with my little issues.

What do you think?

johnar:

--- Quote ---No sense cluttering up the community board with my little issues.
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 Not so. The community board is made for asking questions, and discussions etc can be helpful for more people than the person asking the question. For example, 200 views on your 'Possibly Dumb Questions' thread. Of those 200, there's a good chance that others have wondered about the same issue.
 The anim8or 'community' can be really helpful, and eager to do so.
 I know some things about some things, and near nothing about others. Asking questions here will receive a greater breadth of insights, ideas and experiences etc..

 Another truth here is that i live at the end of a valley in the south island of new zealand, where mobile internet is not only expensive, but can have dodgey reception at the worst possible times. I rarely check emails, (once or twice a week), but visit here every time i go online, so this is probably the easiest and most efficient way to communicate.
 
I don't have instant messaging or anything like that.Yes, i'm an old codger too.


 BTW. to add different materials to different parts of a model, go to object edit mode, select the material you want to apply, then select the faces which you would like to add that material to, and click 'apply'.
 Really easy, and don't forget about the anim8or manual as well.

Old Codger:
Okay, John. Thanks for the help. Sometimes I forget we aren't all Americans living in big cities (2 million+ in the metroplex here and growing) with high speed internet at our fingertips. Oh, and you are NOT my first Kiwi buddy. Used to correspond with another years ago.

ENSONIQ5:
I've made a few domes with Anim8or, below is a way I've found that does a reasonably good job for smallish domes.  It's not strictly geodesic but has a regular appearance.  If the empty faces should be filled with 'glass' I would create a copy of the object at the third stage below, slightly reduce the size, give it a transparent material and overlay it with the 'frame' object.

This modelling technique doesn't give a triangular cross section of the frame elements, that could be simulated by (painstakingly) selecting the 'centreline' nodes in each frame segment and increasing the scale.

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