Thanks....

As seen in attached... I have done a very rough drawing of what I need .... Now how do I get rid of the clutter like 'section planes' and use multiple copies of the component?

Squeaky Again !...... with more problems .... sorry!

O.K. I have managed to cut a slice through the cylinder... thanks to a lot of help! See attachment

My next question is ...... How do I use multiple copies of this slice?

My idea is to build up a model with a number of these slices glued together

Hi Watkins, and anyone else who knows

It may a very dumb question .... How do I do an section plane at an angle

Similar to the one you showed earlier.

Squeaky

Thanks ..... My problem is not actually doing a drawing of a twisted torus .... although I am still very low on the SU learning curve .... but I am only wanting SU as another tool to aid construction of a wood model.

What I wish to do is to make a 'component' that has precise measurements .... then arrange these components in SU to give me a 'twisted torus'.

I am expecting to have to do a great deal of experimentation, on paper, with SU, in order to achieve what I want .... However, I do feel that this is a more better method than actually making the componts (in wood) and then experimenting.

The model torus, shown earlier in this forum, was made up from 36 X 10 degree slices from wood that was glued together as shown in this attachment.

I would imagine that I will have to rotate each slice, by a number of degrees, to achieve the wanted results.

If you have any ideas on the above method please tell me
Squeaky

Twisted like a figure of eight

Thanks to both of you .... very kind!

If you are at all interested I am teaching myself to use SU to assist me in constructing wooden models of various mathematical models

I am making a torus, similar to the attachment, but I now wish to model it in a twisted form.

Squeaky

Sketch of Required slice

Thanks I will have a go now

Thanks for speedy reply ... No not like you show

If I knew how to post images, to this forum, I would show exactly what I need.

Squeaky

Hi, I am very new to SU!

I wish to construct a wedge shaped slice through a cylinder.

For example a cylinderical tapering wedge with say 5 degrees sides.

Is this possible?

Squeaky