. . . allows you to tailor your plans to a variety of building materials and construction methods:
Dome Designer can generate detailed plans for building using Wood or Metallic or Plastic Tubing to make struts and verticies. Dome Designer can also design Plate domes using plates of various materials (wood, metal, plastic, etc.). The Plate feature is also extremely valuable for designing the covering for your dome, whether it is going to be wood, sheet metal, plastic or cloth! It also allows you to build with Soda Straws, so you can design table top model domes before you build big ones. You can also get exact numbers for a dome by selecting "Mathematical Model" . . . which is useful if you want to build using a construction method which Dome Designer doesn't support.
Dome Designer allows you to specify the size of material you will be using, and adjusts the measurements and templates for your design accordingly to give you unsurpassable accuracy and strength.
Dome Designer will even show you how many boards, tubes, etc., to buy and how to cut them efficiently. With Dome Designer you can go from theoretical dome parameters to a cost estimate in seconds! . . . Click next page to continue the tour.