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Hi Alfred.
At 1. question was : if i can choose more shape from this design and delete all together? Not 1 by on 1,if is possible.
Can you help me with a screenshot please,i was trying to find on web and on max how to do it in special the subobject mode finding. sorry.
2) I would select the path spline, go into subobject mode and move the final point wherever you want it.
extrude along spline -- can be used to do this with multiple shapes? i don't find it no tutorial with multiple shapes. i am using 3 shapes combined and how i see in extrude just 1 .
this is what i need to achieve with the 3 shapes( 1 ellipse+1egg+2ndellipse+2nd egg+3rd ellipse ). this 1 cycle. and i need more such a cycles put it together in a string- tube- hollow. which i must to scale to be cone shape ( max has this tool ) ; than every cycle i must to be twisted individualy to x degree clockwise and anticlockwise.
For this reason i need some kind of tools to do it and ask you step by step about this and that.
the 3. question was : i must to work with mm ( in display units. i set the mm now ). in the picture the start of the blue and the end of the green are 3 shapes and the distance betweeb them i must to change it ( and to the other ones too along the entire tube )
4. I suppose you could use a Bend modifier or bones.-- looked at this . the bend i can use for some stuffs . the bone not at all. with the TWIST i do it this ,

what i see with the TWIST is flatening the shape along the lenght somehow.
in the 4.b -- my question was : if i do this tube like in the 1 picture above , after that can i do it like a spiral ( like in the 2 picture TWIST ) and to keep the original shape and structure ?
Now you can make an idea about this project,if any questions let me know or some better sugestions how to achieve it with 3d max.
Thank you,Roland.