EllipticalCylinder Object

Derived from: Surface Object
Defined in namespace "adsk::core" and the header file is <Core/Geometry/EllipticalCylinder.h>

Description

Transient elliptical cylinder. A transient elliptical cylinder is not displayed or saved in a document. A transient elliptical cylinder is used as a wrapper to work with raw elliptical cylinder information. A transient elliptical cylinder has no boundaries and is infinite in length. They are created statically using the create method of the EllipticalCylinder class.

Methods

Name Description
classType Static function that all classes support that returns the type of the class as a string. The returned string matches the string returned by the objectType property. For example if you have a reference to an object and you want to check if it's a SketchLine you can use myObject.objectType == fusion.SketchLine.classType().
copy Creates and returns an independent copy of this EllipticalCylinder object.
create Creates a transient 3D elliptical cylinder object.
getData Gets the data defining the elliptical cylinder.
set Sets the data defining the elliptical cylinder.
transformBy Updates this surface by transforming it with a given input matrix.

Properties

Name Description
axis Gets and set the center axis (along the length) of the cylinder that defines its normal direction.
evaluator Returns the surface evaluator.
isValid Indicates if this object is still valid, i.e. hasn't been deleted or some other action done to invalidate the reference.
majorAxis Gets and sets the direction of the major axis of the ellipse that defines the cylinder.
majorRadius Gets and sets the major radius of the ellipse that defines the cylinder.
minorRadius Gets and sets the minor radius of the ellipse that defines the cylinder.
objectType This property is supported by all objects in the API and returns a string that contains the full name (namespace::objecttype) describing the type of the object.

It's often useful to use this in combination with the classType method to see if an object is a certain type. For example: if obj.objectType == adsk.core.Point3D.classType():
origin Gets and sets the origin point (center) of the base of the cylinder.
surfaceType Returns the surface type.

Accessed From

EllipticalCylinder.copy, EllipticalCylinder.create

Version

Introduced in version August 2014