Hey everyone. Can you give any suggestions/videos/tutorials to how to create windows on a sphere? I think “project” and “pull” commans mess the proportions of the windows and I need them to be a specific length. Can anyone help me with a tutorial video or some solid advice?
If the size and proportions of the window cannot be changed, can you change it’s orientation?
You can easily arrange a bunch of windows geometrically:
-draw lines from the center of your shape outwards. These lines can be created with rotate, polar array, etc.
-Pre-selecting one line, create a CPlane with the Curve option
-Create a rectangle from center of the window’s dimensions.
-Extrude (use the Solid option) the rectangle the depth you need into the shape. Boolean subtract the extrusion from the shape.
-Repeat for all the lines.
If you have a lot of windows, it may be faster to create one extrusion and then copy/array this instead of the curve.
Imagine a person needs to climb out the window and for that purpose you need a 1000mm window height. If you just extruded that shape and cut away from the sphere you’ll have a 1000mm high window but the edge length will be more than 1000mm because it’s a curved surface.
You’re saying the edge length is more important than the overall height, ie. you want to have an edge length of 1000mm and the height can be whatever that edge length produces?