Designing geodesic dome

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ulrich1a
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Re: Designing geodesic dome

Post by ulrich1a »

I made a year ago an update to the macro. Calling the makro lets you set the dome radius.
The updated version gives also drawings for a construction. You can create a strut-frame for a dome construction.

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janeks
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Re: Designing geodesic dome

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The macro is nice. All has worked except when checking Make Strut Drawing - then I got empty solids and empty drawing.
My system:
OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.7554 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 9316a1511a5fea14f1affc6738850f57b5b6ac88
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

There could be also some other options:

-> to create triangle blocks ( I guess the thickness would be the same parameter like Strut height )
or
-> in case when there are doubled struts created group them per equal triangles (in such case when building it is handy to use these pattern approach like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYJbQMi0XW0)

-> to create single struts (in current version there are doubled only)


But my question in my previous post was - is it possible to set geodetic parameters from FreeCad and also use them in FreeCad constraints?

BTW: what would be good starting point/tutorials to start my own macros creating?
ulrich1a
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Re: Designing geodesic dome

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janeks wrote:But my question in my previous post was - is it possible to set geodetic parameters from FreeCad and also use them in FreeCad constraints?
If you are satiesfied with a simple icosahedron, then there exist an parametric model of it. The geodesic dome is actually a static object created from a macro. In order to make it parametric, it would be necessary to write something like a viewprovider for it, which should expose the dome radius as a variable parameter. But unfortunately I have actually no time to work on it. If remember right, the macro has a python class, that creates the dome with the radius as parameter. So it is at least possible to make a new dome with just a call to a python class.
janeks wrote:BTW: what would be good starting point/tutorials to start my own macros creating?
I started myself with the FreeCAD-documentation here: http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... _scripting

Ulrich
haganhasolari
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Re: Designing geodesic dome

Post by haganhasolari »

what software do you use to draw out domes like the ones you showed or domes like these
www.ecodome.co.il
no spam intended it's just a website I came upon
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