Kenny Pyatt wrote in message <37CAB99E.93CB3A0C@dshack.com>...
>This question maybe a simple one to the experts but I can't seem to make
>a simple oval.  I can make a chain link by taking the difference of a
>torus and adding cylinders, I can make a torus.  But I can't figure out
>the way I am supposed to strech the torus into an oval.  Please tell
>me.  I am sure it is simple.


A true oval cannot be created by scaling a torus.  If you scale a torus, you
get an elliptical torus.  An oval is composed of four arcs, so a ovoidal(?)
torus would be composed of four sections of tori in two different sizes.

Mark

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