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<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

Boolean Operation

Text

Array

Image

Vector

Primitive Curves

Surface

Panels

Curve Analysis

Intersection

Triangulation

Render

3D Object

Solid

Analysis

Transform

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Tool

point

Extrude Point

surface

profileCurve

Extrude Along

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

origin

radius

Circle Surface

zDirection

Plane By Normal

plane

point1

point2

unit

Vector By 2Pnt

vector

length

vectorA

vectorB

unitize

Vector Subtract

divisor

Vector Divide

Create a lofted surface through a set of section curves

degree

Loft Surface

Surface Area

surfaceArea

Construct Point

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

factor

VectorZ

Vector Add

PlaneXZ

Create a surface from two, three or four edge curves

Surface By Edges

width

Rectangle Surface

Cross Product

geometry

Connect the point to which you want to move

bool

Change Origin

translatedGeometry

Adjust a plane to match a new normal direction

normal

Adjust Plane

adjustPlane

Scale an object uniformly in all directions

center

Scale

scaledGeometry

Mirror Point By Surface

mirroredPnt

Create a circle defined by center, normal and radius

Circle CNR

Returns a circle with a radius and a center point

Circle

closed

Polyline

Interpolate

pointA

pointB

A point along the edge of the rectangle opposite the side created by points Pnt1 and Pnt2

pointC

Rectangle 3Pnt

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

knots

weights

NURBS Curve PWKD

Measure the length of a curve to and from a parameter

parameter

Length Parameter

lengthAP

lengthPB

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

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

sourcePlane

targetPlane

Orient Vector

orientedVec

Shear an object based on a shearing vector

referencePoint

targetPoint

Shear

shearedGeometry

curveA

curveB

factorA

factorB

Blend Curve

Blend curve connecting the end of A to the start of B

Returns the base plane, radius and angle domain of an arc

Deconstruct Arc

startAngle

endAngle

Discontinuity

points

Divide a curve into equal length segments

step

Divide By Distance

tangents

parameters

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

Name	Type	Description
Point	Point	Start point
Point	Point	End point
Curve	Curve	Curve to join with

Creation method

There are two options for creating Connect With Curve node.

Steps

See also