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My daughter and I are new to 3D and AC3D, and really impressed with AC3D.

The primary interest is designing mesh things for Second Life. We're acquainted with basic prim building in Second Life.

Here's the problem.

I want to create the cord of a necklace and am interested in learning any methods.

Preferably, I'd like to be able to increase/decrease the diameter without affecting the overall width or height, like what happens when holding CTRL and re-sizing the object.

This is what I tried.

I used the included Second Life Avatar for reference and then used the circle tool to create an ellipse around the avatar's neck.

I then selected and moved vertices to better follow the contour of the avatar neckline. (As a newbie, I don't know how much of that is truly necessary yet)

I then created a second ellipse and rotated it, and then extruded it along the path of the first ellipse.

The "cord" formed, but a gap is left and I don't know why.

I also don't know how I would change the diameter of the cord.

Any help is very appreciated.