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

Surface for normal and center point extraction

surface

Face Normals

centers

normals

<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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Curve Analysis

Intersection

Primitive Curves

Panels

Array

Transform

Toolset

Text

Analysis

Solid

Render

Vector

Boolean Operation

Surface

Triangulation

3D Object

Image

Tools.png

Tools Light.png

Tool

curve

profileCurve

Extrude Along

Surface From Curves

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

geometry

point

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

distance

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

parameter

plane

reverseX

reverseY

swapAxes

Flip Plane

resultPlane

Extrude Point

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

first

second

Distance 2 Points

pointsDistance

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

points

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

Pull Point

Distance between point and its projection onto geometry

Surface Iso Curves

uIsoCurve

vIsoCurve

list

The direction in which the points will be created

vector

Point List

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

crv1

crv2

Sum Surface

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

length

origin

xDirection

yDirection

Construct Plane

Deconstruct a plane into its component parts

Deconstruct Plane

xAxis

yAxis

zAxis

Perform plane rotation around plane z-axis

angle

Rotate Plane

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

start

Line

Returns a circle with a radius and a center point

radius

Circle

Translate (move) an object along a vector

Move

translatedGeometry

pointA

pointB

pointC

InCircle

Rectangle 2Pnt

Get the point on evaluates a curve at a specific location

Point In Curve

Point/Region relationship (0 = outside, 1 = coincident, 2 = inside)

relationship

projectPoint

Create tangent lines between a point and a circle

circle

Tangent Lines

tangent1

tangent2

Create external tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (Ex)

Curve Length

curveLength

Mirror

mirroredGeo

line

planeA

planeB

Line By 2Plane

Extract the start and end points of a curve

End Points

pointS

pointE

Point On Curve

Join

Generate a number of equally spaced, perpendicular planes along a curve

count

align

Perp Planes

planes

parameters

dividePoints

Shatter

segments

pattern

Dash Pattern

dashes

gaps

Changes the start point of a closed curve

Seam

changedCurve

Cull points that are coincident within tolerance

curves

Cull Curves

culledCurves

Returns difference between two or many sets of planar closed surfaces

mainSurface

Surfaces or Surfaces (closed Curves) for boolean operation

Surface Difference

Divide a curve into equal length segments

Divide By Length

tangents

Rebuild a curve with a specific number of control-points

Rebuild Curve

rebuildCurve

Returns union of a set of planar surfaces

Surface Union

Hexagonal Panel

hexagon

Generate a number of equally spaced curve frames

Curve Planes

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

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

glueType

Surface Glue

Result outlines of boolean union with glue

Name	Type	Description
Centers	Point	Center-points of all faces
Normals	Vector	Normal vectors for all faces

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Face Normals node.

Steps

See also