Inserts a subtractive cylinder in the active Body. Its shape is subtracted from the existing solid.
On the left: active body (A) shown in grey and subtractive cylinder (B) shown in transparent red; result on the right.
Usage
Press the Subtractive Cylinder button. Note: the Subtractive Cylinder is part of an icon menu labelled Create an subtractive primitive. After launching FreeCAD, the Subtractive Box is the one displayed in the toolbar. To get to the Cylinder button, click on the down arrow besides the visible icon and select Subtractive cylinder in the menu.
It is possible to create skewed cylinders by specifying angles in respect to the normal vector of the chosen attachment. introduced in version 0.20
The Cylinder can be edited after its creation in two ways:
Double-clicking it in the Model tree, or by right-clicking and selecting Edit primitive in the contextual menu; this brings up the Primitive parameters.