How to make a geodesic dome

[johnpratt6024]

I would like to make a geodesic dome similar to the ones that are attached but I don’t know how to go about it. Can someone please post a set of step by step instructions? Thank you.

[Box]

This would be a good place to start.

[klaustrophobia]

Hello Im intending to draw a 3v geodome on sketchup and came across this thread

here are some places to get info

http://www.desertdomes.com/

Geo-Dome geodesic dome building

and a video of a goedome that we constructed out of wood during a course in spanish however

Construcción de un domo geodésico en un fin de semana

[catamountain]

There’s a program that exports to Collada…

[Antiprism] Large collection of polyhedron models available for SketchUp

The latest release of the Antiprism polyhedron modelling software includes a new program, off2dae, which will convert polyhedron models in OFF format to Collada (DAE) format suitable for import into SketchUp. As well as converting from OFF, the program can also generate hundreds of polyhedron models in Collada format by name. E.g, to make a frequency 3 geodesic sphere off2dae geo_3 > geo_3.dae Here is the full list of named models. The off2dae program is very new and has had little use. Plea…