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Results affected by crease splitting setting Crease splitting enabled

The Revolve command creates a surface by revolving a profile curve that defines the surface shape around an axis.

Steps

Select curves.
Pick the start of the revolve axis.
Pick the end of the revolve axis.
Specify options.

Command-line options
DeleteInput	Yes Deletes the original geometry. No Retains the original geometry.
Deformable	Yes The surface is rebuilt on the 'around' direction to a degree-3 non-rational surface. Specify how many points in that direction. Deformable revolves can be deformed smoothly with point editing. No The resulting revolved surface is an exact revolve: a rational surface with fully-multiple knots at the quadrants. This kind of surface is not easy to deform smoothly by point editing.
PointCount	Specifies the number of control points in the result.
FullCircle	Revolves the input curve 360 degrees as a shortcut for specifying 360 degrees as the revolve angle. AskForStartAngle Yes Allows setting the angle (a number of degrees away from the current input curve location) the revolve will start. No Starts the revolve from 0 (the input curve location).
SplitAtTangents	Yes Creates a single surface. No Creates a polysurface when the input curves are joined tangent curves. Faces in the resulting polysurface correspond to the tangent sub-curves in the input curves. Original polycurve (left), SplitAtTangents=No (center), SplitAtTangents=Yes (right). Wikipedia: Tangent

Note

When this option is used, the output will be a polysurface.
When UseExtrusions is on, this setting has no effect.

See also

Create surfaces

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