Create (5) interlocking, multicolored rings, HELP Please

I'm trying to create (5) interlocking, multicolored
rings. I've gotten close, but no cigar. I just
need some guidance, not a complete draw. I know
they need to be multibodies, but I get a lot
of open contour errors. It will only work
up to a certain point, then stop.


TIA,

Dennis

 

Hello Dennis,

Are you trying to make a 5 link chain, where the links are
horizontal-vertical-horizontal-vertical-horizontal.
Or are you trying to make the Olympic symbol thing (I'm guessing it's this).

Muggs

 

Yes, I was trying for the Olympic symbol.

 

I did make 5 rings, multicolored, using the move/copy translate, but
it does not provide the effect I was looking for. The rings
don't really look interlocked, but fabricated to produce
one unit. I really wanted the rings to appear interlocked.
As I think about it, it just might be impossible for
a cad system to do. It could be fabricated in reality, but
not in cad.

-Dennis

 

Try to extrude your ring on an angled plane. (Or do the array in a direction
not colinear of your extrude plane)

 

Yes, I'll go that route.

Thanks