>does anyone know how to make a bent cylinder I am trying to make a bent
pipe
>with different angles in it

Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> replied:
> Chris Colefax' object bender comes to mind. Or if you have MegaPOV,
> you can use a sphere sweep. If you don't have it, you can make your
> own sphere_sweep by, well, sweeping a sphere along a path by means of
> a #while loop.

My Object Bender (http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax) does seem to be an
obvious choice, and for certain projects it offers a quick (to use)
solution.  In general, though, it's far from the most efficient method of
creating curved objects - sphere_sweeps seem to fit that bill best if you
have MegaPOV and want extrusions with a circular cross-section.

For more options, you may want to look at my Spline Macro System
(http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/spline), which lets you declare a spline
path in a variety of ways, and then lets you create objects based on this,
including pipes, coils, linked chains, blobs, and more...

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