Oil Tank Object

What is it about?

This page describes the Oil Tank primitive in Cinema 4D. It creates a cylinder with spherically curved caps — parametrically adjustable into tanks, rivets, buttons and other rounded-cap shapes.

This creates a cylinder along the Y axis with curved caps. By adjusting the parameters many different objects can be made, such as rivets.

Interactive editing

The oil tank has three handles:

  • Drag handle (1) to change the radius.
  • Drag handle (2) to change the height of the oil tank
  • Drag handle (3) to change the height of the caps.
    The handles of the oil tank primitive.