feature request: creating cylinder/N-gon by side length or "inner" radius

[ivla]

Is it possible to add some options to a cylinder/N-gon primitive?

1. Make cylinder or N-gon by side length and side count. Say, I want 5-sided cylindrical prism with 1 unit length of each side.


2. Make cylinder or N-gon by radius from center to the middle of each side (not to angle vertice) - and side count, of course.


I can write scripts for plugin by @edb but it's not ready yet for current wings3d version...

[micheus]

Is it possible to add some options to a cylinder/N-gon primitive?

That is simple for n-gons, but not for cylinder once it involves the creation of other primitives on its dialog.

So, for now you can use this patch for n-gon and extruding it you can get the 3d object easily.



* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothem

Download it here.

[ivla]

Wow! Thanks a lot!

[edb]

Hello ivla,

I'll try to make a new build soon of the scripting plugin, sorry it's taking so long. I didn't get around to it just yet because of ongoing changes.