I've put this together in response to a recent request for information on modelling a flexible hose (pictured in ENG-TIPS Thread 560-176891), so here's a step-by-step guide to the the method I used, but while I'm at it I'll elaborate a little.

There's no shortage of pictures so most of them appear as thumbnails, C L I C K on these to open them up in another window.

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