This 40-faced dome was designed using the new split-frame tool in Ligno3D Designer V 3.50. All frame members are split lengthwise, so that the halves can be used to frame the triangular panels. The panels are assembled using bolts to join the two halves of the frame members, thus making for a very strong and portable strucure.
Ligno3D designer can also be used for designing tents. Note the guy ropes, which are 'faces' with only two vertices. 'BigTop.lig' is one of the project files now included in Ligno3D Designer.
Various textures have been applied to the house components, corrugated iron to the roof, wattle-and-daub to the walls, sawn hardwood to the verandah posts and decking.
Here is a futuristic coffin, ready for launching into a a sun-impacting, elliptical orbit. You might need a few of these on a trip to Mars! Use a Y-Z mirror plane when designing objects like this.
Sea urchins have five-fold rotational (pentamerous) symmetry. All the faces of an icosohedron from the Object Menu were 'quadrated' twice to form a geodesic shpere with 320 faces. The sphere was then flattened in Y and stretched in Z. The resulting elipsoid was truncated via two vertical planes at 54 degrees to the elipsoid's long axis. The segment that remained was then replicated via a 5-fold rotational axis and the top faces that meet at Y were removed by deleting the vertex on the Y axis. The 'psychedelic' option was chosen in the Decor Menu.
This is SoccerHead from the home page, but with a splitting headache! He has been converted to a framework using the Split-Frame tool. The yellow half-frame hexagon (slipped halo!) has been selected and moved outward, away from its original, snug-fitting position.
Ligno3D Designer can also be used to design balloons. The 'HotAirBalloon.lig' project file comes with the program.
This is a very simple set of spiral stairs made with the help of Ligno's Y rotation axis and a Y increment for every rotation step. It has been rendered in Pacific Maple texture.
This sturdy geodesic dome has been converted to a timber framework made from standard sawn timber of rectangular cross section. The 'Create Frame' command can either create a split frame dome, as seen in the first picture in the Gallery, or a rectangular frame dome like this. All frame members are separate named components that can be individually selected and moved arouind with the arrow keys.
Made from 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, a soccer ball is difficult to do with most CAD programs. Ligno3D's 'tilt-up' mechanism and rotational symmetry makes it a breeze. The Western Red Cedar texture comes from an offcut I found in my garage. The 'veneer' texture option was used.
This 12 pointed 3D star illustrates Ligno's 'psychedelic' decor option, which looks spectacular on some objects. The star was generated by using Ligno's 'Star-Maker' tool on all faces of a dodecahedron from the Object Menu.
This is a torus from Lign3D's object menu that has been stretched in Y. It beautifully illustrates Ligno's ability to render objects in a texture. The 'solid' option was specified. The texture is literally from a block of Pinus Radiata I found in my garage and plonked on a scanner!
Unlike the spiral stairs, which are helical, this object demonstrates Ligno's ability to generate a true spiral combined with a helix. This is done by specifying changes in both Y and radius with every rotation step.
This simple (but leaky!) chalice was made using Ligno3D's ability to generate solids of revolution - a virtual lathe if you like.
Just one of the interesting shperical objects Ligno3D Designer is capable of churning out by the hundred. Multiple face extrusion and face subdivision have been deployed.
This object consists of three interpenetrating tori of pentagonal cross section. You can zoom into an enclosed interior space that has eight small triangular windows.
