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    Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space? —Don Heyse
   (...) It sounds like you want the intersection point of the 2nd circle with the plane of the first circle. I guess that should be exactly one point unless they're in the same plane. However, I don't see how the rubber band gets back to the first (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space? —Kevin Clague
     Don, I'm assuming four pulleys in this case. Two are parallel to each other where the rubber band bends to be non-planar, and two others that pull the band around the two parallel pulleys. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space? —Don Heyse
   (...) Ah Ha! Apparently there were TWO other pulleys you weren't telling us about. (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space? —Kevin Clague
   I have a child in fourth grade, and like many his age, he is a natural born lawyer looking for loopholes, so 'm well versed in the tactic because it is hard to resist.... If you notice my original post, I didn't even mention pulleys, I just asked (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space? —Paul Easter
   (...) What you really need is to find a way to find just one side of the "rubber band". Say, pulley A to pulley B, "Side one". Then you could use the same function to determine pulley B to C, side one or two, and so on... Right? Paul (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Tangent between two circles in 3D space? —Kevin Clague
   <snip> (...) Yes. lsynth only deals with 1 peice of stretched rubber band at a time, which is why I was keeping those other three pulleys a secret from Don. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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