Tri-Braid Attempt

 From:  fleetfoot
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Hi,

This is my first post to the forum. I just got MoI a few days ago and I must say I'm really liking it a lot. I was wondering how I could model a three stranded circular braid, and this is what I came up with after a day or so of scratching my head trying to figure it out. For this is was really only necessary to model one strand and then rotate/copy it 2 times at the proper angles. Because the rail was displaced in the Z axis at the proper points the result is the typical over/under configuration in a braid.

I had some experience with Rhino 3D some years ago so I wasn't exactly a newbie. Even so I find MoI to be wonderfully powerful and intuitive to use.

Regards,
fleetfoot

P.S. I forgot to mention this was a test render in Vue 10 Complete (sorry for the too large size)


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