Hi Michael,
It would be used in conjunction with a CAM program for stock setup. The cam program has this option too. It does a cylindrical bounds with the option to use either the x, y or z as the axis direction. it DOES do the tightest cylinder on the presented object, which gives me it's bounds center point.

i would be looking to get this for doing 4th/5th axis work using cylindrical stock.

I think the cylinder would just be looking for the largest axis of the boundingbox output, if using the "x" as a default axis, then that would be either a Y or a Z value, and so on.

I can make a quick demo of what it looks like if that will help.

Hi Michael,
I just did a few tests. It is inded different than bounding box. The operatation should produce a cylinder which just fits the largest points of an object, no mater it's shape or how it's rotated. The operation I'm familiar with has an option to set an X, Y or Z as the calculation axis for any given object. Maybe this is a mass calc we dont have yet?

Hi Burr,

> I just did a few tests. It is inded different than bounding box. <....>

So yeah that's not at all easy to compute, it's not really related to the bounding box, but an entirely separate calculation.


> Maybe this is a mass calc we dont have yet?

Yeah I guess something like a "projected centroid" type thing, I took a quick look around and I do not see any functionality that seems to resemble that in Solids++ so that would likely be a significant project to try and implement that, sorry.

- Michael