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Figure 489: 3D Surfaces Cylinder dialog

Cylinder: Select Cylinder in the mode drop-down list and enable it. Click on to open the settings dialog.

Cylinder properties: Defines the diameter and position of the cylinder.

Diameter: Defines the diameter of  the tube. Negative values are also allowed to mark inside a cylinder.

X, Y Position: Defines the X, Y position of the tube.

Angle in XY Plane: Defines the tube angle in the XY plane.

Z Offset: Defines the Z position of top of the tube. If the Diameter is negative this value defines the Z position of bottom of the tube.

Z Tilt Angle: Defines the Z slanting angle.

Advanced: Extended settings of tube marking.

Line Splitting Length: This parameter specifies the distance along a line after which a new point is generated and transformed on the 3D surface. Every individual line is split independently.

Tube Angle: Defines the maximal angle of the tube for the vector bending. This parameter affects the distance of the blue dashed lines in the View2D.

View2D: Four blue dashed lines indicates the location and size of the cylinder in the View2D. The View2D shows the vectors not bent around the tube.

Outer blue dashed lines: Defines the unwrapped size of the Tube Angle. Only vectors between these lines will be bend.

Inner blue dashed lines: Defines the wrapped size of  the Tube Angle.

Figure 490: 3D Surfaces Cylinder View2D

3D preview: The bending of the vectors can be seen in the 3D view. Select at least one entity and click the 3D View button .

Figure 491: 3D Surfaces 3D preview.