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title: "Oil Tank Object"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OOILTANK.html"
section_path: "Create Menu > Mesh > Oil Tank Object"
element_id: "OOILTANK"
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description: "This page describes the Oil Tank primitive in Cinema 4D. It creates a cylinder with spherically curved caps — parametrically adjustable into tanks …"
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# Oil Tank Object

> **Note:** **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.

![Image: 001421.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001421.jpg)

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.

  ![Image: 001425.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001425.jpg)\
  The handles of the oil tank primitive.