Cylinder

class dolfin.cpp.mesh.Cylinder(*args)

Bases: dolfin.cpp.mesh.Cone

This class describes a 3D cylinder which can be used to build geometries using Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG). A cylinder is here just a special case of a cone.

Create cylinder defined by upper and lower center and radius respectively.

Arguments

top (Point)

Center at top of cylinder.

bottom (Point)

Center at bottom of cylinder.

r (float)

radius of cylinder.

slices (int)

number of faces on the side when generating a polyhedral approximation.

thisown

The membership flag