http://www.mathworks.de/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/279533 Feed for thread: rectangular grid on cylinder en-us &copy;1994-2013 by MathWorks, Inc. webmaster@mathworks.com MATLAB Central Newsreader http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.mathworks.de/images/membrane_icon.gif Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:45:23 +0000 http://www.mathworks.de/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/279533#736465 mat001 can someone explain me how i can use rectangular grid on cylinder for 3d.<br> <br> Regards Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:16:05 +0000 http://www.mathworks.de/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/279533#736631 Roger Stafford "mat001 " &lt;dres01@lycos.com&gt; wrote in message &lt;hq7caj$u8$1@fred.mathworks.com&gt;...<br> &gt; can someone explain me how i can use rectangular grid on cylinder for 3d.<br> &gt; <br> &gt; Regards<br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;If you want the cylinder aligned along the z-axis, that is what the 'cylinder' function does. Otherwise you can achieve an arbitrary orientation by rotating and translating the outputs of 'cylinder' appropriately before handing them to 'surf'.<br> <br> Roger Stafford