origin

PlaneXY

plane

<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

Image

Array

Analysis

Curve Analysis

Solid

Vector

Triangulation

Boolean Operation

Render

Transform

Surface

Primitive Curves

Panels

Intersection

3D Object

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Tool

Create a sweep surface with two rail curves.

rail1

rail2

sections

Sweep2

surface

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

points

point

Closest Point

closestPoint

index

Distance between the given point and closest point

distance

count

Closest Points

closestPoints

indexes

distances

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

factor

VectorZ

vector

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

Create a surface from two, three or four edge curves

curve

Surface By Edges

list

The direction in which the points will be created

Point List

Point List Sort

sortListX

sortListY

sortListZ

radius

Pipe

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

vectorA

vectorB

Optional plane to determine angle orientation

Angle Vectors

Angle between vectors (oriented if plane is provided)

angle

reflexAngle

unitize

Dot Product

dotProduct

Vector Multiply

length

zDirection

Plane By Normal

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

thickness

Side Thickness

solid

Reverse Vector

reversedVector

Deconstruct a plane into its component parts

Deconstruct Plane

xAxis

yAxis

zAxis

pointA

pointB

Plane By 3Pnt

Orient an object using directional constraints only

geometry

directionA

directionB

Orient Direction

reorientedGeometry

Create internal tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (In)

tangent1

tangent2

pointC

Arc 3Pnt

Modified Arc

Create a star using a center point, in and out radius, and number of vertices

Radius in star (distance from center to tip)

radiusIn

Radius out star (distance from center to tip)

radiusOut

countOfVertex

Star

Closed

True if curve is closed or false if curve open

boolean

Extract the start and end points of a curve

End Points

pointS

pointE

Plane Closest Point

projectedPoint

uvPoint

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

line

planeA

planeB

Line By 2Plane

center

pitch

height

radius1

radius2

leftHand

Helix

Returns the point in the middle of a curve

Curve Middle Point

middlePnt

Get the coordinates of a point in a plane axis system

localPlane

Plane Coordinates

xCoordinate

yCoordinate

zCoordinate

Curve Length

curveLength

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

Creation method

There are two options for creating a PlaneXY node.

Steps

See also