Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

surface

<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

Text

Image

Panels

Render

Analysis

Surface

3D Object

Intersection

Array

Vector

Primitive Curves

Boolean Operation

Solid

Toolset

Transform

Triangulation

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Tool

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

curve

Loft Advanced

geometry

point

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

distance

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

parameter

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

Plane defining cylindrical coordinate space

plane

angle

radius

height

Point Cylindrical

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

vector

length

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

origin

PlaneYZ

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

xyAngle

zAngle

offset

Point Polar

polarPoint

Reverse Vector

reversedVector

unit

Vector By 2Pnt

vectorA

vectorB

unitize

Cross Product

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

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

factor

VectorZ

Line constraint. Plane origin will be at line start point. Plane x-axis will be parallel to line direction

line

Point on plane. Point must not be co-linear with line

Plane By Line+Pnt

Returns a circle with a radius and a center point

Circle

Closed

True if curve is closed or false if curve open

boolean

Translate (move) an object along a vector

Move

translatedGeometry

Perform minimal rotation to align a plane with a guide vector

direction

Align Plane

alignPlane

Rotate an object around a center point and an axis vector

center

Rotate

rotatedGeometry

pointA

pointB

pointC

Arc 3Pnt

planeA

planeB

Line By 2Plane

Create external tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (Ex)

tangent1

tangent2

Generate a number of equally spaced, horizontally aligned curve planes

count

align

Horizontal Planes

planes

parameters

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

mainRegion

Region Difference

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

Planar

planar

Divide a curve into equal length segments

Divide By Length

tangents

dividePoints

Shatter

segments

toleranceDist

edgeDist

Curve To Polyline

polyline

pattern

Dash Pattern

dashes

gaps

Solve the perpendicular (zero-twisting) plane at a specified curve parameter

Parameter {t} on curve domain to evaluate

Perp Plane

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

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Point 1	Point	First corner	[0,0,0]
Point 2	Point	Second corner	[10,0,0]
Point 3	Point	Third corner	[10,5,0]
Point 4	Point	Fourth corner	[0,8,0]

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Surface 4Pnt node.

Steps

See also