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- A 3-dimensional dome or hemisphere is constructed in AutoCAD by the following
- sequence:
- 1: Load dome.lsp (load"dome")
- 2: Set elevation for dome base
- 3: Enter centre point
- 4: Enter radius
- 5: Enter "step resolution"
- (This sets the resolution of the
- dome by setting the thickness of
- the first layer of the dome to be
- it's radius divided by the "step
- resolution")
- 6: AutoCAD now constructs the dome.
- 7: Use the AutoCAD VPOINT command to look at 3D views of
- the dome.
-
- To make the "dome" more accurate, the thickness of each consecutive layer
- is reduced by a fraction of the previous layer - hence a default value of 8
- was added to the lisp program for the "step resolution" since this was
- considered to give a reasonable dome which does require extensive regenerations.
-