Fixed Length Lines to Curves

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I am totally new to this stuff, but I am trying to make an Easter project for my daughter. What I want to do is make my daughter a giant easter egg (roughly 4ft high). I am going to use 5ft sections of PEX or cPVC pipe to create the frame and I am trying to model it out on the PC to see how it will look or what I will need exactly.

What I want to do in blender is create 4 lines (front / back / 2 sides) of 5in or 5cm or whatever then curve them into an egg shape. I do not want to length of the line to change. Is there a simple way to do this? Ideally I would also like to make a line that would be formed into a circle to go around the middle of the egg.

Any help would be appreaciated.

Thanks

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Could use a curve and curve deform modifier to manipulate existing geometry, which should more or less keep the length

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Sanity check says most edges are 0.0315 long and there are 160 of them, total of 5, which is the same length as when starting from straight line of edges.

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Great this is what I was looking for. Problem is I can not even make a simple curve in this program and getting frustrated.

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Great this is what I was looking for. Problem is I can not even make a simple curve in this program and getting frustrated.

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That’s a problem everyone had and solved it with training


http://getblended.org/2012/07/modelling-with-curves/