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I'm talking about the stack of toroids in this post. My first attempt is on the left. I literally stacked up a bunch of toruses, overlapping them to create a "solid". It renders well enough. I was dissatisfied with the number of faces, however. Feels like bad style to me, and I don't like the idea each of these is a separate mesh.

Enter take 2, the one on the right. This one is a cylinder. I put 40+ loop-cuts around it. I selected every 4th loop cut and scaled. These became the high point of each toroid. Then I grabbed the same loop cuts and the ones adjacent, and scaled these until I had the shape you see below. It's a single mesh and feels better. However, to make it, I had to laboriously select dozens of loop cuts and eyeball them into a toroid. Took a long time. I wanted to add a few more of the toroids to the bottom, but I couldn't see how to do it except by duplicating the mesh and shrinkwrapping the duplicated section to the bottom. It works but it isn't perfect. What a pain.

How would a non-beginner bang this mesh out without it being such a manual and fiddly process?

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks, I'll try that. Never used an array modifier. $\endgroup$
    – Tony Ennis
    Jan 5 at 5:43

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Add a Torus in Object Mode under Add > Mesh > Torus

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Go tab into Edit Mode and press 1 to go into Vertex Select Mode and press Alt+Z to toggle into X-Ray Mode then follow this GIF animation to select the top and bottom part of vertices and press X > Delete Vertices. Then hover over the inner remaining part of the Torus and press L to select it, and press X > Delete Vertices. Then use the Array Modifier and the Merge option to fuse and stack multiple torus meshes on top of each other that get merged into one mesh.

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    $\begingroup$ Thanks, I'll try this today. It seems much better than what I did. $\endgroup$
    – Tony Ennis
    Jan 5 at 13:22
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    $\begingroup$ This worked great. I never knew about selecting "linked" vertices. $\endgroup$
    – Tony Ennis
    Jan 5 at 23:48

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