jgratton
2007-03-01, 11:16 PM
I'm running through Ellen Finklestein's tutorials and in the second one she makes the following statement regarding adding thickness to circles and rectangles:
"Did you notice a difference (beyond the basic shape)? Interestingly, the cylinder has a top, but the box doesn't. In fact, the box doesn't have a bottom either. It turns out that when you add a thickness to objects:
Circles, 2D solids, and polylines with a width greater than zero have tops and bottoms.
Polylines and closed line figures do not have tops or bottoms."
I am using 2005 and my circle is just as open-ended as my rectangle.It dows not look like the one in her tutorial either. I see the tesselation lines inside my open topped cylinder.
Is there something new about circles that postdates the tutorial?
"Did you notice a difference (beyond the basic shape)? Interestingly, the cylinder has a top, but the box doesn't. In fact, the box doesn't have a bottom either. It turns out that when you add a thickness to objects:
Circles, 2D solids, and polylines with a width greater than zero have tops and bottoms.
Polylines and closed line figures do not have tops or bottoms."
I am using 2005 and my circle is just as open-ended as my rectangle.It dows not look like the one in her tutorial either. I see the tesselation lines inside my open topped cylinder.
Is there something new about circles that postdates the tutorial?