Extract the NURBS control points and knots of a curve

curve

Control Points

points

knots

weights

<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

Surface

Transform

Panels

Primitive Curves

Analysis

Solid

Vector

Triangulation

Curve Analysis

Boolean Operation

Array

Render

3D Object

Image

Intersection

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Tool

origin

direction

angle

Revolve Surface

surface

Create a lofted surface through a set of section curves

degree

Loft Surface

width

length

Rectangle Surface

Offset a surface with a specified distance

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

offsetType

offsetSize

Offset Surface

offsetSurface

thickness

Side Thickness

solid

vector

center

axis

Vector Rotate

rotatedVector

first

second

Distance 2 Points

pointsDistance

geometry

point

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

distance

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

parameter

Surface Area

surfaceArea

Unit vector parallel to the world {y} axis

factor

VectorY

vectorA

vectorB

Optional plane to determine angle orientation

plane

Angle Vectors

Angle between vectors (oriented if plane is provided)

reflexAngle

Closest Point

index

Distance between the given point and closest point

Adjust a plane to match a new normal direction

normal

Adjust Plane

adjustPlane

pointA

pointB

pointC

Circle 3Pnt

radius

Create tangent lines between a point and a circle

circle

Tangent Lines

tangent1

tangent2

Create a line from guide line and two points

line

Line By 4Pnt

Radius of polygon (distance from center to tip)

countOfSides

Polygon

Curve To Surface

Create a surface from two, three or four edge curves

Surface By Edges

Circle Surface

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

Reverse Vector

reversedVector

xDirection

yDirection

Construct Plane

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

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

Create a point from polar {phi,theta,offset} coordinates

xyAngle

zAngle

offset

Point Polar

polarPoint

Pull Point

Distance between point and its projection onto geometry

divisor

unitize

Vector Divide

PlaneXZ

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

crv1

crv2

Sum Surface

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

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

Deconstruct a vector into its component parts

Deconstruct Vector

Amplitude Vector

amplitudeVector

Vector Subtract

PlaneYZ

zDirection

Plane By Normal

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

Surface From Curves

list

Point List Sort

sortListX

sortListY

sortListZ

Compute the length (amplitude) of a vector

Vector Length

Deconstruct a plane into its component parts

Deconstruct Plane

xAxis

yAxis

zAxis

Plane Origin

resultPlane

reverseX

reverseY

swapAxes

Flip Plane

Offset distance (along base plane z-axis)

Plane Offset

Plane Closest Point

projectedPoint

uvPoint

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

Name	Type	Description
Points	Point	Control points of the NURBS-form
Knots	Number	Knot vector of NURBS-form
Weights	Number	Weights of control points

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Control Points node.

Steps

See also