pymel.core.modeling.revolve

revolve(*args, **kwargs)

This command creates a revolved surface by revolving the given profile curve about an axis. The profile curve can be a curve, curve-on-surface, surface isoparm, or trim edge.

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
autoCorrectNormal (acn)		bool
	If this is set to true we will attempt to reverse the direction of the axis in case it is necessary to do so for the surface normals to end up pointing to the outside of the object.Default:false
axis (ax)		float, float, float
	Revolve axis
axisChoice (aco)		int
	Only used for computed axis/pivot case. As we are computing the axis for a planar curve, we have two choices for the major axis based axis. We will choose the axis corresponding to the longer dimension of the object (0), or explicitly choose one or the other (choices 1 and 2).Default:0
axisX (axx)		float
	X of the axisDefault:1
axisY (axy)		float
	Y of the axisDefault:0
axisZ (axz)		float
	Z of the axisDefault:0
bridge (br)		bool
	If true, we will close a partial revolve to get a pie shaped surface. The surface will be closed, but not periodic the way it is in the full revolve case.Default:falseAdvanced flags
caching (cch)		bool
	Modifies the node caching mode. See the node documentation for more information.Note:For advanced users only.
computePivotAndAxis (cpa)		int
	If this is set to 2, we will compute the axis, use the curve position and radius to compute the pivot for the revolve internally. The value of the pivot and axis attributes are ignored. If this is set to 1, we will take the supplied axis, but compute the pivot. If this is set to 0, we will take both the supplied axis and pivot.Default:0
constructionHistory (ch)		bool
	Turn the construction history on or off
degree (d)		int
	The degree of the resulting surface.Default:3
endSweep (esw)		float
	The value for the end sweep angle, in the current units. This must be no more than the maximum, 360 degrees, or 2 Pi radians.Default:6.2831853
mergeItems (mi)		bool
name (n)		unicode
	Name the resulting object
nodeState (nds)		int
	Modifies the node state. See the node documentation for more information.Note:For advanced users only.Common flags
object (o)		bool
	Create the result, or just the dependency node
pivot (p)		float, float, float
	Revolve pivot point
pivotX (px)		float
	X of the pivotDefault:0
pivotY (py)		float
	Y of the pivotDefault:0
pivotZ (pz)		float
	Z of the pivotDefault:0
polygon (po)		int
	The value of this argument controls the type of the object created by this operation 0: nurbs surface1: polygon (use nurbsToPolygonsPref to set the parameters for the conversion)2: subdivision surface (use nurbsToSubdivPref to set the parameters for the conversion)3: Bezier surface4: subdivision surface solid (use nurbsToSubdivPref to set the parameters for the conversion)
radius (r)		float
	The pivot point will be this distance away from the bounding box of the curve, if computedPivot is set to true. The value of the pivot attribute is ignored.Default:1
radiusAnchor (ra)		float
	The position on the curve for the anchor point so that we can compute the pivot using the radius value. If in 0 - 1 range, its on the curve, normalized parameter range. If 0 or 1, its computed based on the bounding box.Default:-1
range (rn)		bool
	Force a curve range on complete input curve
rebuild (rb)		bool
	Rebuild the input curve(s) before using them in the operation. Use nurbsCurveRebuildPref to set the parameters for the conversion.
sections (s)		int
	Number of sections of the resulting surface (if tolerance is not used).Default:8
startSweep (ssw)		float
	The value for the start sweep angle, in the current units. This must be no more than the maximum, 360 degrees, or 2 Pi radians.Default:0
tolerance (tol)		float
	Tolerance to build to (if useTolerance attribute is set)Default:0.01
useLocalPivot (ulp)		bool
	If true, then the pivot of the profile curve is used as the start point of the axis of revolution.Flag can appear in Create mode of commandFlag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
useTolerance (ut)		bool
	Use the tolerance, or the number of sections to control the sections.Default:false

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.revolve

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

import maya.cmds as cmds

# To revolve a curve about the X axis at the origin. The profile curve is
# revolved by 360 degrees by default.
pm.revolve( 'curve1', ax=(1, 0, 0), p=(0, 0, 0) )

# To revolve a curve about the Y axis at 1,0,1:
pm.revolve( 'curve1', ax=(0, 1, 0), p=(1, 0, 1) )