Hi eric, so I think really that way I showed above with cutting longitudinal slices out of a sphere or revolved piece is probably the cleanest way.
An alternate way if you do want to work with individual solid pieces would be to build something like a central hub piece like this:
Then union each of your pieces to that hub rather than trying to union them directly to each other.
That would also avoid the kind of chaotic grazing slightly angled intersections as well, since the intersection between each hoop and the hub would be a clean and simple one.
But it tends to be harder to get the sharp pointy cuts with this method, the other way of cutting the full surface longitudinally is easier to get those orange wedge like segments in.
Does that all help to explain the problems that you were running into and some solutions for you? Please let me know if you need more details.
- Michael
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