pyvista.Cylinder

Cylinder(center=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), direction=(1.0, 0.0, 0.0), radius=0.5, height=1.0, resolution=100, capping=True)

Create the surface of a cylinder.

See also pyvista.CylinderStructured().

Parameters:

centersequence[float], default: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

Location of the centroid in [x, y, z].

directionsequence[float], default: (1.0, 0.0, 0.0)

Direction cylinder points to in [x, y, z].

radiusfloat, default: 0.5

Radius of the cylinder.

heightfloat, default: 1.0

Height of the cylinder.

resolutionint, default: 100

Number of points on the circular face of the cylinder.

cappingbool, default: True

Cap cylinder ends with polygons.

Returns:

pyvista.PolyData

Cylinder surface.

Examples

>>> import pyvista
>>> import numpy as np
>>> cylinder = pyvista.Cylinder(
...     center=[1, 2, 3], direction=[1, 1, 1], radius=1, height=2
... )
>>> cylinder.plot(show_edges=True, line_width=5, cpos='xy')