Adding Volume

9. Delete the faces outside of the outlined surfaces. The floor plate should resemble the image.

Adding Volume

Now that you’ve drafted the floor plate, continue modeling the Courthouse by adding volume. To do that, Push/Pull the faces on the left side of the floor plate, as indicated in steps 10 through 14. 10. Push/Pull the base to a height of 27´-6˝. Add a parapet. A parapet is the wall-like barrier at the edge of a roof or structure. The parapet height is 7´-6˝. The parapet surfaces are defined by the offset arcs in step 8.

Parapet

11. Push/Pull the adjacent set of faces to total 42´-6˝. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

12. Push/Pull the next set of faces to a total 67´-6˝. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

13. Push/Pull the next set of faces to a total 77´-6˝. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

14. Push/Pull the last set of faces on the left side of the base to a total 75´. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

Now it’s time to Push/Pull the faces on the right side of the floor plate, as indicated in steps 15 through 17. 15. Push/Pull the the first set of faces to the base height of 27´-6˝. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

16. Push/Pull the adjacent set of faces to total 42´-6˝. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

17. Push/Pull the last set of faces to total 77´-6˝. Push/Pull the parapet an additional 7´-6˝.

Parapet

18. Push/Pull the semicircles located on the outside of the floor plate to 15´ in height.

19. Push/Pull the semicircles located on the outside of the floor plate to 15´ in height.

20. Push/Pull the center circle to 82´-6˝ in height. Push/Pull the adjacent faces on either side of the center circle to 75´ in height.

21. Offset the top face of the central circle as indicated.

22. Push/Pull the four inner faces that you offset in the previous step to 7´-6˝ in height. The last two inner faces should be 7´-6˝ higher than the adjacent faces. Do not Push/Pull the outer two faces.

23. Insert the Courthouse Glass Dome Component. This component can be found at 3D Warehouse under the SPM 2 search term. Place the component onto the top of the central circle. Scale and adjust the Glass Dome to fit the top portion of the inner circular surface, as shown.

24. The hidden geometry must be visible for this step to work. Copy the six edges composing the front area of the central building mast downward along the blue axis, 68´-6˝. Make sure the copied edges subdivide the faces below. Push/Pull the two faces that are second to last from the outside, 4´ outward.

25. Push/Pull the side inner faces of the faces extruded in the previous step toward the center of mass, 5´.

26. Draw two edges to connect the two extruded faces. Draw the edges from the top and bottom outside endpoints. Done correctly, this will heal faces on the top and front.