Making n-sided polygons in Blender 2.69

Question

Is there anyway to create n-sided polygons in Blender without having to set the user preferences to 'enter edit mode' when adding a mesh. I'm asking this because there are times when I want add a cylinder mesh with n-gons on the top or to initialize a mesh previous to adding it to a scene.

Answer 1

Yes This is possible.

For a cylinder:

1. Press ShiftA> Add mesh > Cylinder

2. Press F6 and set the Cap Fill Type to Ngon.

If you are looking to do this from python:

bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_cylinder_add(radius=1, depth=2, end_fill_type='NGON', view_align=False, enter_editmode=False, location=(-2.06615, -0.413393, 3.45981), layers=(True, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False))

Or have a look at the bmesh api.

For doing this in the interface, usually one uses Edit mode (perhaps you could elaborate on why this doesn't work for you?). To create an ngon in edit mode, select the faces you wish to convert to a single face and press F.