Hi Robert,

re:
> I tried the methods that you posted here, but i can not figure out how to get the result that i want.:/

I think you may need to explain a little more about what type of result you want.

So far you've explained that you don't want gaps, so I thought you wanted the pieces to deform to fill in that gap space.

But then you explained that you don't want deformation.

So I know some of the things that you don't want but I don't know much about what you do want.

Do you want the gaps to be filled by some kind of central tube surface? Or something else? What is it that you want to have where you currently have the gaps?

Can you post the model files for some of the things you tried? That might help to give some tips on what was going wrong there.

- Michael