"The Domes"

[Sydious]

Greetings,

I am trying to model Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory in Milwaukee Wi also known as the Domes. Pretty simple to start with as I took an Icosphere with about 4 subdivison on it and cut that in half. Pow…I have a dome.

I made the whole thing with a transparent material on it. Looks go so far, but now I am stuck.

I need all the edges to represent metal tubing or such.

Is there a way to mark the edges and then make them “solid” or something so I could give them their own material?

I though of using benzier curves and laying them over all the edges, but that seems very time consuming and tedious. Any other waysomeone can think of to do this?

I am using 2.5 and am very new to blender.

Home this makes sense.

Thanks.

[MCollett]

@Sydious"

I need all the edges to represent metal tubing or such.

Is there a way to mark the edges and then make them “solid” or something so I could give them their own material?

If you really want to model all the edges as mesh, select everything in Edit mode and then use Mesh - Scripts - Solid wireframe. But depending on the scale and level of detail you want to work at, just using texture effects (including a bump map or similar) may be enough.

Best wishes,
Matthew

[Sydious]

@MCollett

If you really want to model all the edges as mesh, select everything in Edit mode and then use Mesh - Scripts - Solid wireframe. But depending on the scale and level of detail you want to work at, just using texture effects (including a bump map or similar) may be enough.

Best wishes,
Matthew

They must have moved that in 2.5. I don’t see Scripts under the Mesh menu. Anyone know where Solid Wireframe is in 2.5?