Mirror Curve By Surface

mirroredCurve

<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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3D Object

Curve Analysis

Image

Panels

Vector

Surface

Primitive Curves

Toolset

Boolean Operation

Transform

Array

Analysis

Render

Triangulation

Text

Intersection

Solid

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Tool

curve

Curve To Surface

surface

profileCurve

Extrude Along

thickness

Side Thickness

solid

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

Plane defining cylindrical coordinate space

plane

angle

radius

height

Point Cylindrical

point

Create a sweep surface with two rail curves.

rail1

rail2

sections

Sweep2

Create a pipe surface with variable radii around a rail curve

parameters

A list of radii for every defined parameter

radii

Pipe Variable

list

Point List Sort

sortListX

sortListY

sortListZ

geometry

Pull Point

closestPoint

Distance between point and its projection onto geometry

distance

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

vector

length

origin

zDirection

Plane By Normal

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

Loft Advanced

PlaneXY

PlaneXZ

direction

Revolve Surface

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

width

Rectangle Surface

Surface Edges

edges

faceEdges

points

Closest Point

index

Distance between the given point and closest point

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

factor

VectorZ

vectorA

vectorB

unitize

Cross Product

Dot Product

dotProduct

Create a line from guide line and two points

line

pointA

pointB

Line By 4Pnt

Create a circle defined by center, normal and radius

center

normal

Circle CNR

pointC

InCircle

Plane Origin

resultPlane

Plane By 3Pnt

ScaleNU

scaledGeometry

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

start

Line SDL

planeA

planeB

Line By 2Plane

Create internal tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (In)

tangent1

tangent2

pitch

radius1

radius2

leftHand

Helix

Adjust a plane to match a new normal direction

Adjust Plane

adjustPlane

Modified Arc

closed

Interpolate

Construct a NURBS curve from control points, weights, knots and degree

knots

weights

NURBS Curve PWKD

Discontinuity

Planar

planar

Fillet off one or more sharp corners of a geometric shape.

filletRadius

Fillet Edges Geometry

filletGeometry

3D voronoi diagram for a collection of points

boundary

Voronoi 3D

cells

Cull points that are coincident within tolerance

curves

Cull Curves

culledCurves

culledIndices

Planar voronoi diagram for a collection of points

Optional containment boundary for diagram

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

Voronoi 2D

voronoi

Returns intersection between two or many sets of planar closed surfaces

Surfaces or Surfaces (closed Curves) for boolean operation

Surface Intersection

Returns the split fragments from splitting two solids

cutter

Split Solid

result

Get the point on evaluates a curve at a specific location

Point In Curve

Point/Region relationship (0 = outside, 1 = coincident, 2 = inside)

relationship

projectPoint

Contour

Generate a number of equally spaced, horizontally aligned curve planes

count

align

Horizontal Planes

planes

Get the curvature plane of a curve at a specified parameter

Parameter {t} on curve domain to evaluate

parameter

Curve Plane

Generate a number of equally spaced curve frames

Curve Planes

support

uIsoCurve

vIsoCurve

Quad Panel

Connect With Curve

curveOut

Reorients target geometries (curves, solids, surfaces) to match the specified direction (forward or reverse)

targetGeometries

Geometry Reorient

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Curve	Curve	Base geometry
Surface	Surface	Mirror surface

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Mirror Curve By Surface node.

Steps

See also