Cylinder

This feature creates a cylinder represented as a mesh composed of tethrahedral elements:

• Direction (required): Users can select between pre-defined directions (X, Y or Z) or a custom direction for the normal to the base of the cylinder .

• Normal (required): normal vector to the base of the cylinder (only applicable for custom direction).

• Base centre (required): location of the center point of the base.

• Radius (required): radius of the cylinder.

• Height (required): size of the cylinder along the normal direction to the base.

• Element Size (required): target length of the edges of the tetrahedral elements of the cylinder.

Figure 26 - Create a Cylinder window