How to draw a generic cylinder with arbitrary orientation

Hi,

How to draw a generic cylinder, we have its radius, length, position of center of mass ( or bottom face center) and its orientation (using a unit vector, for example 0,0,1 for z-axis ). Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Reza

[Dyuman Joshi]

How does COM matter in making a graphical cylinder?

Check out cylinder and experiment with it.

Answer 1

[Matt J]

See this File Exchange download,

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/87584-object-oriented-tools-for-fitting-conics-and-quadrics

[cCenter,cRadius,cHeight,cYawPitch]=...
                           deal([0 0 0], 2, 10, [45 -30]);  %Cylinder parameters

        
gtCyl=cylindricalFit.groundtruth([],cCenter,cRadius,cHeight,cYawPitch); %Data-less ground truth objects

plot(gtCyl)

[Mohammad Reza]

Thanks.

This is what I learned, in case somebody needs it as well:

Z_axis oriented cylinder: cYawPitch= [0 90]

Y_axis oriented cylinder: cYawPitch= [90 0]

X_axis oriented cylinder: cYawPitch= [0 0]