3 String Braid

[rjshi]

Has anyone on this forum ever attempt to create a 3 string brand? Much like this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Braid_StepBystep.jpg/500px-Braid_StepBystep...

How would you go about doing this? I'm having a lot of trouble trying to replicate it unfortauntely. Thank you!

[JDMather]

Do you have access to Autodesk Inventor?

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Inventor%20Tutorials/Inventor%2011%20Tutorial%207.pdf

Not exactly the same, but the process is the same in Inventor or AutoCAD.

You need the 3D intersection curve of 2 2D curves to define the Sweep path.