How to make a ribbon?

How to make a ribbon?

I can't figure out how to make a ribbon. Don't need a bow or anything, just short lengths, up to about 10 times the width, and be able to bend it in different ways ... loops, twists, that sort of thing. An alternative would be to have the edges of the ribbon as splines with links between the two splines, like a ladder or DNA double helix but bent differently. This is probably easy, but I'm just not seeing how. Thanks for the help.
 
Hi,
I'm sorry but that's probably quite tricky. To do that you actually need a sweep with two rails (splines). But Cheetah3d currently supports only one rail. :cry: This feature is definitely missing and I have to add that.

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Martin
 
Thanks, Martin. I'll probably just go with small multiples (objects as the rungs of the ladder) positioned to indicate the flow.
 
Hi DavidG,
ok, ok, this is not really, what you expect, but this is done in seconds;
A: starts with a box tiled in sections, importet children and turn manually in y-axis by choosing more and more segments while going upstairs.
B: starts with a ring-cut plane, shell-tool, turned as above.
Have fun with Cheetah3d.
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with kindest regards
Frank
 
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