Lathe Object
What is it about?
This page documents the Lathe object in Cinema 4D, a spline generator. It revolves a profile spline around the Y-axis — the classic way to model glasses, vases, bottles and any rotationally symmetric shape from a single outline.
The Lathe object (also known as the screw object) rotates a spline around the Y-axis of the Lathe object so that you can create an elaborate wine glass from a simple profile, for example. The rotation takes place as soon as you 'drop' the spline into the Lathe object. As a rule, the profile spline should be in the XY plane.
 Profile spline
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 The finished wine glass
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In the following scene, all objects were created from Lathe objects.
