I am playing around with using Tube
as an option under PlotStyle
for a ParametricPlot3D
curve, with the end-goal of exporting the model to .stl in order to 3D print it. Overall, it's working quite well, but I am consistently getting poor discretization of the tube along its azimuthal direction.
Here is one minimal example
ParametricPlot3D[
{Cos[ωt], Sin[ωt], 0}
, {ωt, 0, π/2}
, ImageSize -> 500
, SphericalRegion -> True
, PlotRange -> All
, PlotStyle -> Tube[0.2]
]
which produces the following output,
which is much more clearly a discrete 12-gon prism than a cylinder.
What control options do I have to improve the discretization along this dimension?