This is the final stage of assembly! Here is where you take all that measured, marked and cut wire and put the whole dome together...

As with assembling the circular wire form and cardboard dome/pedestal - there's a general order on what segments to lay up and tie first and the order in which you tie the overlaps at the 26 total different verticies (or triangle edges). We don't really need to know the number or "letters" of chords or faces of the 2v triangles over or on the cardboard model either. The arc segments make their own course and make up the geometry of the dome...

Making the first 3 ties: In -this wire tying diagram - tie these 3 segments first in the order shown. Tie lower right triangle vertex first , then top triangle vertex and finally the lower left triangle vertex. Then follow through the mid-section of dome and repeat these connections anopther 4 times for a total of 15 of the 26 verticies...

Then tie on the top dome vertex the other 5 pentagon connections/overlaps: First tie in the remaining 4 Course 4 arc segments that have overlap and overlap extensions. These are what makes Course 4 join "at one point on a plane" (but with overlaps). Then tie in the 5 top pentagon courses to their top dome vertex or points of intersection...

Now, tie the wire for Course 1, and Course 3 overlap with Course 2 : These are on the top-middle dome at the top 5 outer pentagon verticies. With these 5 we now have a total of 16 verticies, with the remaining 10 verticies that make the bottom or "base" of dome to go...

For the final bottom 10 verticies on the dome: Here a wire ring for the whole dome circumference was cut out, eliminating the need for 10 arc sections normally needed from the spreadsheet segment list.

Next, and finally! Attach the pentagon "mid-vertex" connections/overlaps -as shown in this pentagon mid-vertex tie-in illustration-.

Now a cool thing is, once you've done your 1st 2v geodesic "GeoArch wire dome", doing an even stronger 4v or -4 frequency dome- can be done with the same forms and materials (only needing about another 106 feet of wire and maybe some more twist ties to assemble).

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