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Chapter 5: Creating and Editing Primitive Objects

FIGURE 5.18
A ChamferBox with progressively increasing Fillet values

FIGURE 5.19
Several different cylindrical Extended Primitive objects exist, including OilTank, Spindle, ChamferCyl, and Capsule.

OilTank
OilTank seems like a strange name for a primitive. This object is essentially the Cylinder primitive with
dome caps like you would see on a diesel truck transporting oil. The Parameters rollout includes an addi-
tional option for specifying the Cap Height. The Height value can be set to indicate the entire height of the
object with the Overall option or the height to the edge of the domes using the Centers option. The only
other new option is Blend, which smoothes the edges between the cylinder and the caps. All cylindrical
primitives can also be sliced just like the sphere object.
Spindle
The Spindle primitive is the same as the OilTank primitive, except that the dome caps are replaced with
conical caps. All other options in the Parameters rollout are identical to the OilTank primitive.

ChamferCyl
The ChamferCyl primitive is very similar to the ChamferBox primitive, but is applied to a cylinder instead
of a box. The Parameters rollout includes some additional fields for handling the Fillet values.
Capsule
The Capsule primitive is yet another primitive based on the cylinder, but this time with hemispherical caps.
This object resembles the OilTank primitive very closely. The only noticeable difference is in the border
between the cylinder and caps.

Gengon
The Gengon primitive creates and extrudes regular polygons such as triangles, squares, and pentagons.
There is even an option to Fillet (or smooth) the edges. To specify which polygon to use, enter a value in
the Sides field.
Figure 5.20 shows five simple Gengons with different numbers of edges.

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