Solve intersection events for a Solid and a plane

shape

plane

Solid | Plane

curves

points

<p>BeeGraphy Editor Tools Package

This package contains a comprehensive set of tool nodes designed to assist with various operations and analyses in the BeeGraphy Editor.

Usage

The nodes in this package are categorized into specialized groups to simplify design and modeling tasks. They enable users to create, manipulate, analyze, and transform models with precision. To locate these nodes, browse the corresponding groups in the menu or use the search functionality.

Node Groups

Surface Group

The Surface group provides nodes for creating and manipulating surfaces. These nodes enable you to generate freeform surfaces, analyze surface properties, apply surface transformations, create panel structures, perform surface boolean operations, and convert surfaces to triangulated meshes. Surface nodes are essential for working with complex surface geometry and creating smooth, continuous surfaces in your designs.

Vector Group

The Vector group contains nodes for vector operations and calculations. These nodes allow you to perform vector addition, subtraction, normalization, dot products, cross products, and various vector transformations. Vector nodes are fundamental for working with directions, positions, and spatial relationships in 3D space.

Transform Group

The Transform group provides tools for applying geometric transformations to objects. These nodes enable translation, rotation, scaling, and combined transformations. Transform nodes are essential for positioning, orienting, and resizing geometry in your designs.

Primitive Curves Group

The Primitive Curves group contains nodes for generating basic curve shapes. These nodes allow you to create fundamental curves such as lines, circles, arcs, splines, and other geometric primitives. Primitive curve nodes serve as building blocks for more complex curve-based designs.

Curve Analysis Group

The Curve Analysis group provides nodes for analyzing curve properties and characteristics. These nodes enable you to measure curve length, evaluate curvature, check continuity, extract points along curves, and analyze curve geometry. Curve analysis nodes are valuable for understanding and validating curve properties in your designs.

Curve Toolset Group

The Curve Toolset group offers utility nodes for curve manipulation and processing. These nodes provide tools for curve editing, trimming, extending, joining, and various curve operations that enhance curve-based workflows.

Curve Triangulation Group

The Curve Triangulation group contains nodes for converting curves into triangulated representations. These nodes enable you to create mesh representations of curves for rendering, analysis, or further processing.

Boolean Operation Group

The Boolean Operation group provides tools for performing Boolean operations on geometry. These nodes enable union, difference, and intersection operations on surfaces, solids, and regions. Boolean operation nodes are essential for combining, subtracting, and intersecting geometric objects to create complex shapes.

Solid Group

The Solid group contains nodes for creating and modifying solid geometry. These nodes enable you to generate primitive solids, create freeform solids, analyze solid properties, apply solid transformations, perform solid boolean operations, and convert solids to meshes. Solid nodes are fundamental for working with three-dimensional solid objects.

Intersection Group

The Intersection group provides tools for finding intersections between geometric entities. These nodes enable you to find intersections between curves, surfaces, solids, and other geometric objects. Intersection nodes are valuable for determining relationships between geometric elements.

Text Group

The Text group contains nodes for generating and manipulating text objects. These nodes enable you to create text geometry, apply text transformations, and work with typography in your designs. Text nodes are useful for adding labels, annotations, and text-based elements to your models.

Image Group

The Image group provides tools for processing and incorporating images into designs. These nodes enable you to work with image data, convert images to geometry, and use images as design references or textures.

Analysis Group

The Analysis group contains nodes for data and model analysis. These nodes enable geometric analysis, structural assessments, property calculations, and various analytical operations that help you understand and evaluate your designs.

Array Group

The Array group provides tools for creating arrays and repeating patterns. These nodes enable you to create linear arrays, rectangular arrays, polar arrays, and other pattern arrangements. Array nodes are useful for duplicating and arranging geometry in systematic patterns.

Toolset Group

The Toolset group offers general-purpose utility nodes for enhancing workflows. These nodes provide various helper functions, conversions, and utility operations that support and streamline design processes.

Triangulation Group

The Triangulation group contains nodes for converting geometry into triangular mesh representations. These nodes enable you to create mesh versions of surfaces and solids for rendering, analysis, or export purposes.

Each group provides specialized nodes tailored to specific tasks, streamlining complex design and modeling workflows in the BeeGraphy Editor.
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Surface

Transform

Primitive Curves

Curve Analysis

Toolset

Panels

Solid

Intersection

Analysis

Render

3D Object

Vector

Triangulation

Boolean Operation

Text

Image

Array

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Tool

curve

Curve To Surface

surface

point

Extrude Point

vector

Extrude Curve

extrudeSurface

profileCurve

Extrude Along

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

Create a lofted surface through a set of section curves

degree

Loft Surface

origin

direction

angle

Revolve Surface

Surface From Curves

radius

Pipe

Create a surface from two, three or four edge curves

Surface By Edges

crv1

crv2

Sum Surface

Circle Surface

Create an advanced lofted surface through a set of section curves with enhanced parameters

compatibility

smoothing

Continuity level: 0=C0 (geometric), 1=C1 (tangent), 2=C2 (curvature)

continuity

Parametrization method (0: ChordLength, 1: Centripetal, 2: IsoParametric)

parametrization

Loft Advanced

Surface Edges

edges

faceEdges

Extract the normals and center points of all faces in a surface

Surface for normal and center point extraction

Face Normals

centers

normals

Offset a surface with a specified distance

Offset type can be only "Arc", "Tangent" or "Intersection". It is default "Arc".

offsetType

offsetSize

Offset Surface

offsetSurface

list

The direction in which the points will be created

Point List

Create a point from cylindrical {angle,radius,elevation} coordinates

Plane defining cylindrical coordinate space

height

Point Cylindrical

geometry

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

distance

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

parameter

count

Closest Points

closestPoints

indexes

Distance between the given point and closest point

distances

Cull points that are coincident within tolerance. Modes: 0 = Cull All(removes all duplicates), 1 = Leave One(keeps only the first of each duplicate group), 2 = Average(replaces each group with the average point)

List of points to process. Duplicate detection is based on the specified tolerance

Distance threshold below which points are considered duplicates

tolerance

Duplicate handling mode: Cull mode: 0 = Cull All, 1 = Leave One, 2 = Average

mode

Cull Duplicates

culledPoints

Indices of the original points that were retained or -1 for averaged (mode 2) or removed (mode 0) points

culledIndices

Number of duplicates found per result point

valence

Create a point from barycentric {u,v,w} coordinates

pointA

pointB

pointC

Barycentric

barycentricPoint

Create a point from polar {phi,theta,offset} coordinates

xyAngle

zAngle

offset

Point Polar

polarPoint

Unit vector parallel to the world {x} axis

factor

VectorX

Unit vector parallel to the world {y} axis

VectorY

Deconstruct a vector into its component parts

Deconstruct Vector

point1

point2

unit

Vector By 2Pnt

length

Amplitude Vector

amplitudeVector

vectorA

vectorB

Optional plane to determine angle orientation

Angle Vectors

Angle between vectors (oriented if plane is provided)

reflexAngle

unitize

Vector Subtract

divisor

Vector Divide

Reverse Vector

reversedVector

PlaneXZ

Deconstruct a plane into its component parts

Deconstruct Plane

xAxis

yAxis

zAxis

reverseX

reverseY

swapAxes

Flip Plane

resultPlane

Offset distance (along base plane z-axis)

Plane Offset

Line constraint. Plane origin will be at line start point. Plane x-axis will be parallel to line direction

line

Point on plane. Point must not be co-linear with line

Plane By Line+Pnt

Perform plane rotation around plane z-axis

Rotate Plane

Plane By 3Pnt

It allows for the remapping of vectors from one plane to another plane

sourcePlane

targetPlane

Orient Vector

orientedVec

Connect the point to which you want to move

bool

Change Origin

translatedGeometry

Translate (move) an object along a vector

Move

Mirror

mirroredGeo

Mirror By Curve

mirroredGeom

It allows for remapping of geometry from one plane to another plane

Orient

orientedGeo

Mirror Curve By Surface

mirroredCurve

Orient an object using directional constraints only

directionA

directionB

Orient Direction

reorientedGeometry

Shear an object based on a shearing vector

referencePoint

targetPoint

Shear

shearedGeometry

Map a curve from a Source surface to a Target surface using UV reparameterization. Handles seams and face orientation; returns one or more mapped curves

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Shape	Surface	Solid or Surface to intersection
Plane	Plane	Section Plane	"XY"

Name	Type	Description
Curves	Curve	Section Curves
Points	Point	Section Points

Creation Method

There are two options for creating the Solid | Plane node.

Steps

See Also