Thank you Karsten.

I will study it.

- Brian

Meanwhile, it was not very hard to turn the torus curved hex lines into a mesh with a square cross section, a solid, by using FLOW
to create the hex pattern on a slightly smaller torus with the same Rcircle. (The torus seams should match, i.e. both be on the same side of the tori.)
(The inner seam is made to match by creating the inner sweep circle by selecting the proper point, after selecting the circles center.)
(The seam of the circle can be checked by using the shortcut key for MarkCurveStart, on the circle.)
(It is helpful to have several different color styles in play.)
1. Create the surface pattern with hexes that have a small space between. This same space is used to form a smaller sweep circle of (r_radius-space), centered on R,
to make the smaller, inner torus.
2. Then for the outer edges, use the shortcut key v1.2 "select outer edges", (hide the 12 inner seam edges,) and join the hex sides to get hex curves.
3. Repeat for the inner edges.
4. For a pair of 12 adjoining hexagons, (which were two columns), perform 24 lofts between inner and outer edges. (24 manual lofts.)
5. Circular array these 24 hexagons, 12 copies around the torus.
6. Boolean Union the outer torus band, the 24 hexagon sides, and the inner torus band, to create the solid cage.
(A small circular Fillet did not work, after 20 minutes.)

- Brian