solid

Boundary Edges

edges

faceEdges

<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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Toolset

Array

Image

Analysis

Solid

Transform

Curve Analysis

3D Object

Render

Surface

Boolean Operation

Primitive Curves

Intersection

Vector

Triangulation

Panels

Text

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Tool

curve

Curve To Surface

surface

origin

Radius of polygon (distance from center to tip)

radius

countOfSides

Polygon

holeRadius

pipeRadius

Torus

torus

text

Text Length

length

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

Surface for normal and center point extraction

Face Normals

centers

normals

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

pointA

pointB

pointC

Barycentric

barycentricPoint

Mirror Curve By Surface

mirroredCurve

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

source

target

Map To Surface

mappedCurve

Planar

planar

plane

distance1

distance2

Chamfer Curve

chamferCurve

Rebuild a curve with a specific number of control-points

degree

Rebuild Curve

rebuildCurve

support

uIsoCurve

vIsoCurve

Diamond Panel

diamond

angleTriangles

triangles

Circle Surface

Perform plane rotation around plane z-axis

angle

Rotate Plane

resultPlane

Rotate an object around a center point and an axis vector

geometry

center

vector

Rotate

rotatedGeometry

Get a horizontally aligned plane along a curve at a specified parameter

Parameter {t} on curve domain to evaluate

parameter

Horizontal Plane

direction

Project Curve

projectedCurve

Reorients target geometries (curves, solids, surfaces) to match the specified direction (forward or reverse)

targetGeometries

If true, reorient to forward direction; if false, reorient to reverse direction

forward

Geometry Reorient

alignedGeometries

Solve intersection events for solid and curve

Intersect Solid Curve

points

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

point

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

distance

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

vectorA

vectorB

Optional plane to determine angle orientation

Angle Vectors

Angle between vectors (oriented if plane is provided)

reflexAngle

Mirror By Curve

mirroredGeom

Mirror Point By Surface

mirroredPnt

curveA

curveB

factor

Tween Curve

type

start

Extend Curve

extendedCurve

Bounding Box

width

height

area

Caches geometry for multiple uses, avoiding repeated triangulation

The input geometry to be cached and reused

Outputs optimized mesh geometry for rendering

mesh

Provides stored 3D curve geometry for further use

Closest Point

index

Distance between the given point and closest point

Mirror

mirroredGeo

Create a line segment defined by start point, tangent and length

Line SDL

Rectangle 2Pnt

startPoint

endPoint

planePoint

Polygon By Edge

outRadius

The radius of the circumscribing circle of a resulting polygon

inRadius

Extract the start and end points of a curve

End Points

pointS

pointE

Divide a curve into equal length segments

step

Divide By Distance

tangents

parameters

Generate a number of equally spaced curve frames

count

Curve Planes

planes

Create a lofted solid through a set of section surfaces

Loft Solid

Returns all self-intersection events for a curve

Curve Self Intersect

axis

Vector Rotate

rotatedVector

Line

Returns difference between two or many sets of planar closed curves (regions)

mainRegion

Region Difference

Returns difference between two or many sets of planar closed solids

mainSolid

Solid Difference

Offset a surface with a specified distance

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

Name	Type	Description
Edges	Curve	Solid edges
Face Edges	Curve	Face edges

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Boundary Edges node.

Steps

See also