Part Cylinder

Box

Sphere

Part

Part Cylinder
Menu location
Part → Primitives → Cylinder or Part → Creates primitives... → Cylinder
Workbenches
Part
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
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See also
Part Primitives

Description

Creates a simple parametric cylinder, with position, angle, radius and height parameters.

Usage

1. Switch to the Part Workbench
2. Invoke the command several ways:
   • Press the Cylinder button in the toolbar.
   • Select Part → Primitives → Cylinder entry from the top menu
   • Select Part → Creates primitives... then choose Cube from the Geometric Primitives task panel.

Result: The default result is for a full cylinder is to be centered by one circular face coincident with the global origin (point 0,0,0), with a radius of 2mm and height of 10mm.

Options

The properties can later be edited in the data tab for the cylinder:

Cylinder

• Angle: The angle parameter permits the creation of a portion of cylinder (it is set to 360° by default)
• Height: The height is the distance in the z-axis
• Radius: The radius defines a plane in x-y.

Box

Sphere

Part

Part

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