Cylinder
A solid tube with caps, which also generates a truncated cone.
The Cylinder is a round body closed by two caps. The top and the bottom have separate radii, so with different values it becomes a truncated cone, which is the shape of a vase or of a trunk that gets thinner.
Properties
- Top Radius and Bottom Radius: Radii of the two ends, in meters. Equal, they give a straight cylinder.
- Height: Distance between the two caps, on the Y axis. The object is born centered on the origin.
- Radial Seg.: Number of sides of the body. It decides whether the piece reads as round or as a prism.
Topology
The cylinder comes out in triangles, even when the project prefers quads. The caps are fans converging on a central vertex, and mixing a fan with a body of quads would leave the mesh inconsistent at the junction.
For a hollow pipe, use the tube, which is born with a wall. For a tip instead of a small cap, use the cone.