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# Cylinder

VTKEx/CSharp/GeometricObjects/Cylinder

### Description

A tutorial on how to setup a Windows Forms Application utilizing ActiViz.NET can be found here: Setup a Windows Forms Application to use ActiViz.NET

Other languages

See (Cxx), (Python)

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### Code

Cylinder.cs

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Windows.Forms;
    using System.Diagnostics;

    using Kitware.VTK;

    namespace ActiViz.Examples {
       public partial class Form1 : Form {
          public Form1() {
             InitializeComponent();
          }

          private void renderWindowControl1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
             try {
                Cylinder();
             }
             catch(Exception ex) {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Exception", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
             }
          }

          private void Cylinder() {
             // Create a cylinder.
             vtkCylinderSource cylinderSource = vtkCylinderSource.New();
             cylinderSource.SetCenter(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
             cylinderSource.SetRadius(5.0);
             cylinderSource.SetHeight(7.0);
             cylinderSource.SetResolution(36);
             // Visualize
             vtkPolyDataMapper mapper = vtkPolyDataMapper.New();
             mapper.SetInputConnection(cylinderSource.GetOutputPort());
             vtkActor actor = vtkActor.New();
             actor.SetMapper(mapper);
             vtkRenderWindow renderWindow = renderWindowControl1.RenderWindow;
             vtkRenderer renderer = renderWindow.GetRenderers().GetFirstRenderer();
             renderer.SetBackground(0.1, 0.3, 0.2);
             renderer.AddActor(actor);
             renderer.ResetCamera();
          }
       }
    }