EllipticalCylinder Object
Derived from: Surface ObjectDefined 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. |