Creating a half dome?

Tekkybot

how do you do it

Gaieus

Make a full dome and cut it into half.

Now seriously. If you only lathe a shape around a half circle, you will end up with unwanted and weird geometry on both "sides" of your half dome. Therefore this workaround. You can make a dome, can't you? If not, some of the steps (4-7) of this tutorial are about that. I'd suggest however reading the whole tutorial as this is the best tutorial so far at SketchUcation.

Tekkybot

thanx for that. i just had alot of success using the shapes plugin. i added the dome, edited the group, and er cut the dome in half easy as pie

Gaieus

thomthom

@gaieus said:

Make a full dome and cut it into half.

That was my initial thought when I read the topic title.

Gaieus

But there IS indeed the reason - it's just a right place to shoot a joke with it.

Tekkybot

@thomthom said:

@gaieus said:

Make a full dome and cut it into half.

That was my initial thought when I read the topic title.

yeah but i just realized that i have to turn on hidden geometry to cut the dome or else it cuts into squares

Gaieus

Hidden geometry will soon (and often) be your friend. I even have a shortcut for it.