fredramsey opened this issue on Nov 06, 2001 ยท 4 posts
fredramsey posted Tue, 06 November 2001 at 12:08 PM
I'm sure there is a geometry formula for this (I want to be able to do it for various diameters without eyeballing it). Anyone know? Thanks.
EricofSD posted Tue, 06 November 2001 at 9:49 PM
Yeah, click the small 'A' next to the mesh when the mesh is highlighted. Look at the size. X and Y are the diameter and Z is the height. Same for the torus. Make the X and Y the same for the torus and the cylinder.
fredramsey posted Wed, 07 November 2001 at 10:38 AM
I'm sure that will work, but there is an adjustment for a Torus (Under E) that you can set the thickness while keeping the height of the Torus the same. It defaults to 256, and I was wondering what the relationship was to the diameter of a cylinder.
EricofSD posted Thu, 08 November 2001 at 3:10 AM
Actually, after posting my comment I went to test it and found out that the torus at default of 256 was 1% smaller than the cylinder. As for changing the number, the outside diameter stays the same and the inside grows larger with a lower number. ie, if you make a torus of 100, its the same outside, and larger hole. Apply the correction factor if you need. Experiment. Remember, Bryce isn't a modeler, that's what other programs are for. (a good freeware is metasequoia http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/mizno/main_e.html which has export capability in the LE freeware versions) Good luck, hope this helps.