Help How to set the length of the rod

[josemendez]

Sorry, the screenshot is attached here.

The lines are just meant to give you a basic feel for the shape of the rod and its orientation. In a straight, uniform thickness rod, they won't seem like much. But they will really help once your rod has a shape like this:



Just from the lines alone you get a lot of information: the rod is thicker in the middle region, it twists near the right end, and you get the "up" local orientation.

From particles, you would not be able to visualize any twisting or orientation. Sure enough, this is what the rod looks like when rendering it with a textured mesh: