curve

dividePoints

Shatter

segments

<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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Panels

Toolset

Triangulation

Array

Solid

Boolean Operation

Analysis

Intersection

Image

3D Object

Surface

Curve Analysis

Text

Transform

Primitive Curves

Render

Vector

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Tool

point

Extrude Point

surface

Create a surface from two, three or four edge curves

Surface By Edges

vectorA

vectorB

unitize

Vector Add

vector

length

origin

direction

angle

Revolve Surface

center

axis

Vector Rotate

rotatedVector

Extrude Curve

extrudeSurface

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

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

solid

list

Point List Sort

sortListX

sortListY

sortListZ

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

pointA

pointB

pointC

Barycentric

barycentricPoint

xDirection

yDirection

Construct Plane

plane

geometry

factorX

factorY

factorZ

ScaleNU

scaledGeometry

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

Create an arc defined by start point, end point and a tangent vector

start

Arc SED

radius

reverseX

reverseY

swapAxes

Flip Plane

resultPlane

Perform plane rotation around plane z-axis

Rotate Plane

Connect the point to which you want to move

bool

Change Origin

translatedGeometry

Returns a circle with a radius and a center point

Circle

First line constraint. Plane origin will be at line start

lineA

Second line constraint. LineB should be co-planer with but not parallel to LineA

lineB

Plane By 2 Lines

Create a circle defined by center, normal and radius

normal

Circle CNR

Create internal tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (In)

tangent1

tangent2

Mirror

mirroredGeo

Scale an object uniformly in all directions

factor

Scale

Mirror By Curve

mirroredGeom

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

Line SDL

side

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

offsetType

offsetSize

Offset Curve

offsetCurve

Returns union of a set of planar closed curves

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

Region Union

width

height

Box By Center

Find the pair of closest points between two curves

curveA

curveB

Curve Proximity

distance

distance1

distance2

Chamfer Curve

chamferCurve

Generate a number of equally spaced, horizontally aligned curve planes

count

align

Horizontal Planes

planes

parameters

pattern

Dash Pattern

dashes

gaps

type

Extend Curve

extendedCurve

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

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

mainRegion

Region Difference

support

uIsoCurve

vIsoCurve

Triangle Panel C

midPnt

Evaluate a curve at the specified parameter or at a certain factor along its length, where the length factor can be supplied both in curve units and normalized units

Evaluate the curve using either the parameter on the curve's domain or the length factor

value

If true, work with the t parameter, otherwise, work with the length

byLength

Evaluate Curve

Point on the curve at {t} or at the specified length

Tangent vector at {t} or at the specified length

tangent

tangentPerp

Curve length from start to parameter or specified length

len1

Curve length from the specified parameter to the end or from the specified length to the end

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Curve	Curve	Curve to trim
Points	Point	Points to split at

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Shatter node.

Steps

See also