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Creating domes

Creating domes

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Creating domes

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- [Instructor] Today I want to talk to you about creating domes. Now, I'm going to create these as in-place roofs, but you could build them in the family editor as some other category, if you want. But one of the advantages of using an in-place family is you can actually choose the roof category. So to me, it seems pretty logical for these dome forms to be thought of as roofs, and I kind of want them categorized that way. Now there are some disadvantages to choosing in-place families. They can be a little bit heavier, it can perform a little bit slower, and you really can't copy them, but other than that it's a good choice for something like a dome. I've kind of laid out some of the guidelines here to get us started just to kind of speed things up. What I have in this file is some grids that we're going to use as reference to kind of mark where the centers of all these domes are going to be. If we look at the roof…

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