JavaFX Cylinder

In general, a cylinder can be defined as a three dimensional solid object having two parallel circular basis connected by a curved surface. There are the two main parameters that describe a cylinder, namely height of the curved surface and the radius of the circular base.

The radius and the height of a cylinder are shown in the following image.

In JavaFX, the class javafx.scene.shape.Cylinder represents a cylinder. We just need to instantiate this class in order to create a cylinder.

Properties

The properties of the class along with the setter methods are described in the following table.

Property	Property	Setter Methods
height	It is a double type property. It represents the Z dimension of the Cylinder.	setHeight(double value)
radius	It is a double type property. It represents the radius of the Cylinder.	setRadius(double value)

Constructors

There are the three constructors in the class.

public Cylinder() : Creates the new instance with default parameters.
public Cylinder(double radius, double height) : Creates the new instance with the specified radius and height.
public Cylinder(double radius, double height, int divisions) : creates the new instance with the specified radius, height and divisions.

Example

package application;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.PerspectiveCamera;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.shape.Cylinder;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public class CylinderExample extends Application{

	@Override
	public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		//creating cylinder 
		Cylinder cyn = new Cylinder();
		
		//setting the radius and height for the cylinder 
		cyn.setRadius(80);
		cyn.setHeight(200);
		cyn.setTranslateX(300);
		cyn.setTranslateY(250);
		
		//setting camera 
		PerspectiveCamera camera = new PerspectiveCamera();
		camera.setTranslateX(100);
		camera.setTranslateY(100);
		camera.setTranslateZ(0);
		
		//setting group and stage 
		Group root = new Group();
		root.getChildren().addAll(cyn);
		Scene scene = new Scene(root,450,300,Color.LIMEGREEN);
		scene.setCamera(camera);
		primaryStage.setScene(scene);
		primaryStage.setTitle("Cylinder Example");
		primaryStage.show();
	}
public static void main(String[] args) {
	launch(args);
}
}