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Originally Posted by sanddrag

Can you describe the steps used to model the ball?

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)

Originally Posted by Zholl

Btw, how'd you do this? Just change the size of existing models or what?

The trailer is original size, existing model. The model was made as described above. It was enlarged to be 25 feet in diameter.