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Surface Area

surfaceArea

<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

3D Object

Intersection

Boolean Operation

Vector

Panels

Analysis

Triangulation

Image

Solid

Render

Array

Curve Analysis

Toolset

Text

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Tool

curve

profileCurve

Extrude Along

Create a sweep surface with two rail curves.

rail1

rail2

sections

Sweep2

vector

Extrude Curve

extrudeSurface

point

Surface Iso Curves

uIsoCurve

vIsoCurve

Unit vector parallel to the world {x} axis

factor

VectorX

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

VectorZ

geometry

Pull Point

closestPoint

Distance between point and its projection onto geometry

distance

vectorA

vectorB

unitize

Cross Product

length

Create a nurbs surface from a grid of points

Number of points in the U (horizontal) direction. Must divide total number of points.

uCount

If true, the surface will interpolate the points exactly. If false, it will approximate.

interpolate

Surface From Points

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

Plane defining cylindrical coordinate space

plane

angle

radius

height

Point Cylindrical

Dot Product

dotProduct

Create a lofted surface through a set of section curves

degree

Loft Surface

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

Surface Edges

edges

faceEdges

first

second

Distance 2 Points

pointsDistance

origin

PlaneXZ

pointA

pointB

pointC

InCircle

alpha1

alpha2

closed

Interpolate

Create external tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (Ex)

tangent1

tangent2

Rectangle 2Pnt

Construct a NURBS curve from control points, weights, knots and degree

knots

weights

NURBS Curve PWKD

Create a line from guide line and two points

line

Line By 4Pnt

Create an ellipse with two radii and a center point

radius1

radius2

Ellipse

Modified Arc

Curve Area

curveArea

Offset distance (along base plane z-axis)

Plane Offset

resultPlane

Create a circle defined by center, normal and radius

center

Circle CNR

Create tangent lines between a point and a circle

circle

Tangent Lines

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

pattern

Dash Pattern

dashes

gaps

Cull points that are coincident within tolerance

curves

Cull Curves

culledCurves

culledIndices

Returns intersection between two or many sets of planar closed surfaces

Surfaces or Surfaces (closed Curves) for boolean operation

Surface Intersection

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

solid

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

glueType

Solid Glue

Returns the base plane, radius and angle domain of an arc

Deconstruct Arc

startAngle

endAngle

side

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

offsetType

offsetSize

Offset Curve

offsetCurve

filletRadius

Fillet Geometry

filletGeometry

Fillet off one or more sharp corners of a geometric shape.

Fillet Edges Geometry

points

Optional base plane. If no plane is provided, then the best-fit plane will be used

Delaunay Edges

delaunay

support

Diamond Panel

diamond

angleTriangles

triangles

Find on which side of a curve a point exists

Optional plane to measure in. If omitted, the curve plane will be used

Curve Side

Side of curve on which point was found (-1=Left, 0=Coincident, +1=Right)

Boolean indicating whether a point is to the left of the curve

left

Boolean indicating whether a point is to the right of the curve

right

Discontinuity

Divide a curve into equal length segments

Divide By Length

tangents

parameters

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

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Surface Area node.

Steps

See also