Easy Zome Drawing in Sketchup
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2024
- This tutorial shows how to draw zomes in sketchup, the technique is so simple anyone will be able to draw any size zome in just a few minutes. It's commonly thought that these are complex structures to draw, but in fact they are one of the easiest geometric forms I have ever produced, you just need the right technique. You won't need any special skills in sketchup and you could quite easily use any other CAD program.
My website: geo-dome.co.uk/
Zome article:
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Joining Zomes:
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This is like the net bag that you bring avocados home from the grocery store in.
Of course all the lines are the same length.
It can be crochet'ed.
Beautiful!
Thank You Paul!! For your time and for be so generous!
For several days, I searched for a tutorial that explains how to make a zome simply. And There you go !
Thank you so much for your sharing
Glad it helped!
I like this a lot ..I was always afraid I had to get these special plugins that they show in others. I work on the old FREE Sketchup
I think it would help if you showed your menus also in your tutorials
Thanks
Thanks Paul! Finally a video that explains zomes and how to make them!
These are SOOOO beautiful! Thank you sooo much, I didn´t know what I was looking for, until I saw it..
7:00 , 9:20
The vertical extra-line in the triangle is not needed.
Just choose the triangle and rotate a copy around the bottom edge by 180°.
Then delete the horizontal edge and maybe reverse te face and the next diamond panel is compleeted.
for my one i created a 6m Ø 12-side-polygon at first and a 4m center-line.
So the edges of my zome are exact 5 m long
Thanks Paul !!! I was just looking for informations on about the zome ... to make it on sketchup later, but..
You have the all work done here ... and explanations ... and it's seems easy !!!
Thanks a lot for your sharing !!! (Jack)
Thank you, Paul. You're such a great teacher! I wonder how can we calculate that spiral shell shape on a spheric dome? Fibonacci?.. but how to aply it? That may leave a natural space for the door, like a snail.
Will you please try it? Big hug for you!
Great suggestion! I will have a go at the weekend and try to post a video
Hi Paul, I'm thinking about making one out of concert. What are the angles of intersecting between the panels? Are they all just the same as those of the original polygon base?
Could a zome be constructed with Wangerflanges, or are the angles too tight?
Cant wait for your next vid :) Am working on casting them out of methacrylate like spaceplates only need 4 or 5 wooden moulds for this Zome :O) would love to see how you jamm the edges together -- thank you so much for this!! :)
Another way to avoid the manual approach to doubling the facet length. Draw the triangle, then draw the vertical line as before. Instead of calculating the length of the new line, just select and move the vertical line at the top point, making sure to move as a copy, and then move the top point of the copied line, the bottom point of the previous vertical line. Then you have the exact doubling of the central vertical axis of the diamond facet.
Great tip!
Hey Paul, will you be making a set of plans for making these Zomes in the bevel frame method?
@Geo-Dome This would be very helpful. Thank you for your excellent work.
Hi Paul, did you end up ever making a zome building or come up with more detailed plans for building one?
Yes, I'm working on zomes at the moment, will be posting a video and some project plans shortly
@@Geo-Dome looking forward to the new video! I want to build a yoga studio on my farm in Canada and I think the zome would be the perfect shape for the structure
Paul I’m building a 16’ zome now. What do you think would happen if you averaged the dihedral angles?
Interesting idea, I feel that you may hit some problems, Zomes have a reduced dihedral age as you go from the bottom to the top, do you know what the difference is from top to bottom? I might draw one up and find out.... it's late here so will do it tomorrow.
Paul Robinson I think I’m gonna go for it and hope it works out. It’s about a 7 degree difference (per strut, so about 14 for the entire dihedral) between the largest and smallest, so yes that’s kind of a lot...but that really only means you’re fudging a few degrees either way.
I feel like a lot of the elliptical nature of the shape comes from the panel dimensions itself so I’m gonna hope for the best on this one. Do you think that’s too big of a swing?
I think the lowest is 24.2 and the highest is 38 in an 8 “frequency” zome
very helpful. I am very new to Sketchup. How did you rotate the components into all the different angles automatically ps?
I find all this so fascinating but confusing. I was able to duplicate the regular zome from your video but I haven't a clue how the twisty seashell design was made as well as the elongated zome. Very limited as far as sketchup knowledge. I'm just starting to understand components and groups. I hope you will make a few more sketchup video detailing the other zomes. I have been searching for info about zomes but I'm not finding much so far. Would really like to know how to figure out the dihedral face angles so I could make a small scale wood model. Thank you for all the great and inspiring videos.
I'll do a more detailed video of the joining but for now you may want to try having two zones finished then grab one by the top and place the top point on the next hub down of the other zome... Might give you a clue, but keep an eye out for an updated video.
7 Months ago you promised us another tutorial on the seashell zome. We are still waiting desperately. Please please help us great teacher and show the buttons and menus aswell.
A Rhombic Dodecahedron is a Zome
Paul. Gracias un millón. Fácil.
We have a number of acres that could use a few of these. These are great
Thanks a lot for making this! Do you know any simpleish method of extracting the bevel angles and all the measurements from the model for construction?
Bevel angles are the dihedral angles divided by 2. Then that figure minus from 90. If you are doing your own sketch up you can find the dihedral angles that way.
Paul, how do you take the design from this simple line structure to the actual cut timber angles? Is there a quick way or the old fashined way with calculating all the angles, as with these the angles are different at every level.
This is so amazing! I wonder how strong one of these is compared to geodesic. Probably not a strong but this would be so good for my area.
In the diamond form not so stable but if you triangulate each diamond to form an upper and lower triangle this would be very nearly as strong as a geodesic dome, just bear in mind the triangulation would add horizontal struts which will be under tension. You could do them with wire, I'll do a tutorial shortly.
Hello! Thanks for the upload! At the first image displayed at the beginning (00:09 seconds) on the left you have a more intrincated zome model. Have you got the measures of it or some other similar. I have already done a cardboard model of the one you have on the right. I'm working with students from my neighborhood and we would love to make one in a larger scale using cardboard. Many thanks!. Oh, and it would also be great being able to make the one on the back end at 00:38 seconds, that one that looks one on top of another. Thanks again.
No response! :) Thanks!
REALLY?! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOULD THE CLOSEST PERSON TO PAUL ROBINSON PLEASE HUG HIM
For real!
Wow! thank you! Did you build one already?
hi paul
do you have plans to construct the basic one you drew ?
or have you attempted to build said item yet ?
regards
rob
Good job..Do you have plan for this?Thank you..
Yes, if you look in the description of this video you can find a free set, it's called the hobbit zome.: ua-cam.com/video/2jr4HvPrdwQ/v-deo.html
wow...!!!!!! Excellent....
Do you have a video to make this on fusion 360?
That did it! Many thanks.
very nice paul ...
Thank you!!!
Are there any better apps or software for doing this? Maybe autodesk?
I just converted this to a parametric model in freecad. Zones, apex angle, and size all adjustable with a single input. If you know the method any of the better 3D CAD packages should be up to the task.
how did you create that glass-window-texture at the sample-zomes at the beginning of the video?
Hey just followed the tutorial successfully cheers for the great work !!!! one question if you scale / squish it at the end you lose the fact that all the struts are the same length?
Unintuitive, but no. Each step is made of 2 triangles which mirror each other, so equal length edges top and bottom half. This equality follows through all the way to the bottom.
thabks for giving it a name!
Hi Paul, how did create the 3rd type of dome, the pulled one? I just finished the normal one, and i can't "skew" it (if that's the correct term). Many thanks for this tutorial.
OK you need to make one zome a component so you can move it all together, grab the very top and make a copy, place the copy (grabbed at the very top) at the next vertex down, this is where the top diamonds come together at there bottom corner. You can repet this process with another copy and either keep it moving in one plane or move it down and one around for the twisted version. If you still have problems let me know and I'll do a quick tutorial.
Many thanks! Understood and applied!
Starting at 8:30 you have a single diamond then using "make component" and "rotate" you create 9 more. How? (I have the free version of Sketchup, Maybe I need Pro?) I can rotate the original but I can't figure out how to generate copies. I'm eager to see you build one. Your work with domes is very creative.
If you look in the bottom right corner you will see a small box, when you rotate you can see the angle here. If you rotate first, 36° then type in the box x9 you will get 9 more each rotated 36° from the last. I'm sure this will work in the free version of sketchup.
There's something more to it. I never get a copy. I just move the original, plus I get an error message when I enter "x9" I don't want to waste your time. Can you recommend a "For Dummies" sie or book?
Your nearly there, you have to hit the control key to make the copy, here's a video that explains it very well: ua-cam.com/video/7agSNyk8JQA/v-deo.html Best place for tutorials is youtube, I have learned sketchup just through youtube tutorials.
@@calvinglover752 Hi! Its 9x not x9. !!!
u are awesome!!!
I like it!
how do you get the curved one?
thank you!
Thanks a lot.
superb
*Merci pour cette vidéo, j'en fabrique en cuivre!!!*
#Ortimlife
This like that building in downtown London.. Pinecone Math! -Overlapping 3-d Fibonacci sequence; sorta.. I have a ufo on film -with four silver pine cones on top.. just sayin..
Hows going Paul? No updates for a while now
Just been crazy busy this summer, don't worry though I have plenty more videos in the pipeline. Hoping to do at least one a week in 2017.