Thank you so much for providing this information on arches. You made it easy to understand.

Michael, The animated graphics associated with the layout of various typical arch forms is most useful and a great reference source. Often, particularly in stonemasonry, one is required to produce an arch with a set number of voussoirs plus a keystone. Use of dividers set at at an initial approximation to the voussoir width and then stepped off around the intrados of the arch and then adjusting the setting accordingly dependent on whether one under or overshoots the perimeter of the arch has been a method taught to us. This trial and error stepping. off approach has numerous other applications in elementary setting out and more than often superior to making actual measurements which can often lead to inaccuracies. Thank you once again for original content and clear 3D graphic production!

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it Jeff....it should prove useful to other trades apart from C&J such as sheet metal fabrication, stone masonry etc

Brilliant, fantastic animations.

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it Sean.

This is Excellent ! Thank you. 👍

@michaeldownes516

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Brilliant example so well explained and easy to follow

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3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

Thanks, brilliant explanations.

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Hello Michael, Nice go at this. I got 40 years in this and still learning

@michaeldownes516

Жыл бұрын

glad you like it Bill....40 years at it myself and also still learning...

@artinconstruction9070

11 ай бұрын

Hi Michael fello Irish man here living in Australia, we do old school restoration, I have a possible church restoration coming up with lots of gothic arches, your videos are extremely helpful, thanks a lot !

@michaeldownes516

11 ай бұрын

glad you find it of use

Excellent !

@michaeldownes516

Жыл бұрын

your welcome

Very informative video on setting arches. Thank you Michael. How do you establish the “springing line” for the Gothic arch?

@michaeldownes516

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Bill, the springing line in the case of a doorway would be where the vertical reveal line from the floor level ends..and the arch curve then starts,,,,this is in line with the Gothic span line. This distance from the the floor line would usually be a given on the architects plans. Some times the overall height from the floor level to the top of the the gothic arch is given....in that case you would have to subract the Gothic rise distance from your overall distance to get the distance to the springing line from the floor level.

@billf7062

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldownes516 Thanks again Michael.

Great stuff. I have seen math formulas for this, but this better. Thanks.

@michaeldownes516

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

That’s some fun stuff. Thanks.

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Can also do ellipsis with a loop of string and screws.

Does anyone know - What kind of math app is needed to calculate gothic arches like these? I have not found 1 app that does gothic arches.

Great video. Thanks m8

@michaeldownes516

2 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

Excellent video, what program do you use to make the animations?

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it...i use PowerPoint for the animation.

Great video

@michaeldownes516

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Cuales la forma para sacar curbas para una pared

Hi Michael, can you please make a video on how to do the indian multifoil arch geometrically. I can do it freehand and with guesswork... but how can we establish it geometrically so that if someone gives me a certain passage or entrance to put an indian multifoil arch in, I can go in with geometrical rules and do it just as you have presented here with these videos.

@michaeldownes516

Жыл бұрын

I would love to do a video on a multifoil when i get a chance.....in the mean time, if you pause at 10.27min into video and visualise and arc whose center is where the larger pink arcs intersect, and radius is where blck broken line intersect pink arc.Then the next radius center is where the yellow broken line intersects the pink arc, and its radius streched to where black broken line intersects pink arc. Continue same process down to base line. You may want to reduce each small radius to aviod a feather edge between arcs. I know there are alot of variations of this type of archway....if you send me a link to an image of the type you are referring to i could see what i can do. hope this is some use...

You are the best i repeat you are the best

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

glad you liked it

I cannot believe what I am seeing before me! Michael, thank-you! There is so much in the world that is unknown to many people! Why has building beautiful archways seemed to disappear? Do you have a school?

@michaeldownes516

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it..hopefully there will be more of these archs going foreward as the instruction to setting them out, in an animated format, is accessable on line ...i instruct apprentice Carpenters and Joiners in a training center in the west of ireland.

MICHAEL , HOW DID THEY FILL IN THE CELLS BETWEEN THE ARCHES?

@michaeldownes516

11 ай бұрын

Hi Pelipe, did you mean joints between the cut stone that form the arch?

Very informative good video

@michaeldownes516

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it