Autodesk Revit Architecture

[#1]

Hello, I was planning on doing a geodesic dome-home design in one of my architecture classes and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to go about it. I have the dimensions of the house and the sizes of each triangular "panel" of the house; however, I'm not sure of how to construct it within revit. Would it even be worth the effort? Or is there another way, possibly through Autocad, if order to construct a geodesic dome easier?

[#2]

It is possible in Revit, using a Conceptual Mass, thena Divided Surface, and a Pattern Based Curtain Panel applied

to the Divided Surface.

Do a search on these topics.

cheers

[#3]

Cliff got to the question be fore I did, but the conceptual massing tools will probably be able to get waht you are after.  Here is an example I created in about 5 minutes.  It is not exactly a geodesic dome in the fact all the panels are different sizes.  with a bit more math applied and some more time taken I think it could get there.

[#4]

Also take a look here:

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Vasari/enu/Community/Tutorials/Vasari_Talk_-_Design_and_Analysis_Webina...

Zak shows how to use reporting parameters to check if the panels are "flat" and to report lengths of each "leg"

of the panels. His demo is not on a pure dome shape, but a similar approach could be applied to the geodesic dome.

cheers