Orient an object using directional constraints only

geometry

pointA

directionA

pointB

directionB

Orient Direction

reorientedGeometry

<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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Primitive Curves

Intersection

Solid

Transform

Render

Vector

Surface

Toolset

Array

Curve Analysis

Triangulation

Image

Boolean Operation

Panels

Text

Analysis

3D Object

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Tool

curve

profileCurve

Extrude Along

surface

Curve To Surface

vector

Extrude Curve

extrudeSurface

origin

direction

angle

Revolve Surface

radius

Pipe

point

Extrude Point

Evaluates a surface at given normalized {U,V} parameters and returns local geometric properties

Normalized U parameter (range: 0 to 1) at which to evaluate the surface

uParam

Normalized V parameter (range: 0 to 1) at which to evaluate the surface

vParam

Evaluate Surface

Evaluated 3D point on the surface at {U,V}

normal

Tangent vector in the U direction at the evaluated point

uDirection

Tangent vector in the V direction at the evaluated point

vDirection

Local coordinate system (plane) at the evaluated point

plane

Surface Area

surfaceArea

Create a pipe surface with variable radii around a rail curve

parameters

A list of radii for every defined parameter

radii

Pipe Variable

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

degree

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

solid

thickness

Side Thickness

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

length

point1

point2

unit

Vector By 2Pnt

Connect the point to which you want to move

bool

Change Origin

translatedGeometry

Create a circle defined by center, normal and radius

center

Circle CNR

pointC

Arc 3Pnt

Radius of polygon (distance from center to tip)

countOfSides

Polygon

Changes the start point of a closed curve

parameter

Seam

changedCurve

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

Region Intersection

Returns union of curves using glue mode for touching/non-penetrating shapes. Faster for assembling operations.

Curves(Regions) or Curve(Region) for boolean union operation

Glue mode can be only "Shift" or "Full". It is default "Shift"

glueType

Region Glue

Result outlines of boolean union with glue

holeRadius

pipeRadius

Torus

torus

Extrude Surface

side

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

offsetType

offsetSize

Offset Solid

offsetSolid

Solve intersection events for a solid and a curve

Solid | Curve

curves

points

text

Text Length

Compute the Levenshtein distance between two fragments of text

text1

text2

boolean

Text Distance

Levenshtein distance between the two fragments

distance

width

count

seed

fixedPoints

Populate 2D

height

Populate 3D

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

Surface for normal and center point extraction

Face Normals

centers

normals

list

Point List Sort

sortListX

sortListY

sortListZ

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

Barycentric

barycentricPoint

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

factor

VectorZ

Plane Origin

resultPlane

Adjust a plane to match a new normal direction

Adjust Plane

adjustPlane

Translate (move) an object along a vector

Move

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

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Geometry	Geometry	Base geometry
Point A	Point	Reference point	[0,0,0]
Vector A	Vector	Reference direction	[0,0,1]
Point B	Point	Target point	[0,0,0]
Vector B	Vector	Target direction	[0,0,1]

Creation method

There are two options for creating an Orient Direction node.

Steps

See also