Generates contour lines on 3D geometry for topographic analysis

shape

plane

distance

Contour

contours

<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

Triangulation

Intersection

Solid

Primitive Curves

Curve Analysis

Toolset

Panels

Analysis

Array

Boolean Operation

Text

3D Object

Transform

Vector

Render

Image

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Tool

curve

Curve To Surface

surface

point

Extrude Point

solid

thickness

Side Thickness

Deconstruct a point into its component parts

Deconstruct Point

Generate a grid of {uv} points on a surface

uCount

vCount

Divide Surface

divisionPoints

parameters

geometry

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

parameter

points

count

Closest Points

closestPoints

indexes

Distance between the given point and closest point

distances

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

Point Oriented

pointOriented

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

factor

VectorZ

vector

vectorA

vectorB

unitize

Vector Add

length

origin

xDirection

yDirection

Construct Plane

Vector Multiply

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

pointA

pointB

pointC

Barycentric

barycentricPoint

Pull Point

Distance between point and its projection onto geometry

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

Dot Product

dotProduct

Deconstruct a plane into its component parts

Deconstruct Plane

xAxis

yAxis

zAxis

Create a line from guide line and two points

line

Line By 4Pnt

Create a rectangle using center, width, length

center

width

Rectangle By Center

It allows for the remapping of vectors from one plane to another plane

sourcePlane

targetPlane

Orient Vector

orientedVec

startPoint

endPoint

planePoint

countOfSides

Polygon By Edge

outRadius

The radius of the circumscribing circle of a resulting polygon

inRadius

Orient an object using directional constraints only

directionA

directionB

Orient Direction

reorientedGeometry

Create an ellipse with two radii and a center point

radius1

radius2

Ellipse

Measure the length of a curve to and from a parameter

Length Parameter

lengthAP

lengthPB

Curve Area

curveArea

Plane Origin

resultPlane

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

circle1

circle2

radius

Tangent Arcs

arc1

arc2

alpha1

alpha2

Closed

True if curve is closed or false if curve open

boolean

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

Parameter {t} on curve domain to evaluate

Perp Plane

Get a horizontally aligned plane along a curve at a specified parameter

Horizontal Plane

Rebuild a curve with a specific number of control-points

degree

Rebuild Curve

rebuildCurve

Returns difference between two or many sets of planar closed surfaces

mainSurface

Surfaces or Surfaces (closed Curves) for boolean operation

Surface Difference

support

uIsoCurve

vIsoCurve

Triangle Panel C

midPnt

Divide a curve into equal length segments

step

Divide By Distance

tangents

toleranceDist

edgeDist

Curve To Polyline

polyline

Planar voronoi diagram for a collection of points

Optional containment boundary for diagram

boundary

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

Voronoi 2D

voronoi

Solid Union

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

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Shape	Surface	Solid or Surface to contour
Plane	Plane	Base plane for contours	"XY"
Distance	Number	Distances between contours	1

Creation Method

There are two options for creating the Contour node.

Steps

See Also