COMSOL Multiphysics™

evolve
Purpose
revolve
Revolve a 2D geometry object into a 3D geometry object.
Syntax
Description
g3 = revolve(g2,..)
g3 = revolve(g2,...) revolves the 2D geometry object g2 into a 3D geometry
object g3 according to given parameters.
The function revolve accepts the following property/values:
TABLE 1-37: VALID PROPERTY/VALUE PAIRS
PROPERTY VALUES DEFAULT DESCRIPTION
angles 1-by-2 vector [0 2*pi] Revolution angle
polres scalar 50 Polygon resolution
revaxis 2-by-2 matrix [0 0;
0 1]
wrkpln 3-by-3 matrix [0 1 0;
0 0 1;
0 0 0]
Revolution axis
Work plane for 2D geometry
cross-section
The 3D object g3 is a revolved object, where the 2D geometry object g2 lying in
the plane defined by the property wrkpln is revolved about the revolution axis
between the angles defined by the property angles. angles can also be given as a
scalar, in which case the first angle is assumed to be 0.
The property revaxis is a 2-by-2 matrix where the first column specifies a point on
the axis and the second column specifies the direction of the revolution axis.
polres defines the number of parameter value pairs in the polygon representations
of the edges.
Examples
Create torus about the y-axis:
re = revolve(circ2(1,'pos',[2 0]));
Create revolved object from zx-plane:
p_wrkpln = geomgetwrkpln('quick',{'zx',10});
ax = [0 1;0.5 2]';
g3 = revolve(circ1(0.4,'pos',[1 0]),'angles',[-pi/3 pi/3],...
'revaxis',ax,'wrkpln',p_wrkpln);
geomplot(g3);
See Also
extrude, geom0, geom1, geom2, geom3, geomcsg, geomgetwrkpln
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