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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Can you describe the steps used to model the ball?
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I can't take credit for the ball. I tried for an hour or two, then put up a contest in my Google Talk status to see if anybody else could. Half an hour later, my friend David (who is very skilled at Inventor) sent me back a pic of the incorrectly-woven ball from the manual and animation. It was, however, completely accurate to the manual. I asked him if he could do a correct one, and ten minutes later, it was done (Did I mention he was skilled at Inventor?)
I think the general concept is to have two types of bands, orange and blue. The orange bands have 1/3 of a pie in the center, such that when three are joined to form one whole pie, the bands form a triangle on the ball. This was repeated with the blue bands, and the two pies were joined at the center of the ball. This pic should explain it better:
(BTW this is the same model that was used on our button design, if you happen to have any 449 buttons)
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Originally Posted by Zholl
Btw, how'd you do this? Just change the size of existing models or what?
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The trailer is original size, existing model. The model was made as described above. It was enlarged to be 25 feet in diameter.