---
title: "Tube Object"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/OTUBE.html"
section_path: "Create Menu > Mesh > Tube Object"
element_id: "OTUBE"
command_id: "5165"
description: "This page describes the Tube primitive in Cinema 4D. It creates a hollow cylinder with adjustable wall thickness and optional rounding — ready-made for …"
---

# Tube Object

> **Note:** **What is it about?**
>
> This page describes the **Tube primitive** in **Cinema 4D**. It creates a hollow cylinder with adjustable wall thickness and optional rounding — ready-made for pipes, rings, bushings and vessel walls.

![Image: 001427.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001427.jpg)

This command creates a hollow cylinder with walls of various thicknesses, whose ends are aligned parallel to the XZ plane.

# Interactive editing

The tube has three handles:

- Drag handle (1) to change the outer radius.

- Drag handle (2) to change the inner radius.

- Drag handle (3) to change the height (i.e. the tube's length).

  ![Image: 001431.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/001431.jpg)\
  The handles of the tube primitive.