Extract the start and end points of a curve

curve

End Points

pointS

pointE

<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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Vector

Surface

Curve Analysis

Intersection

Text

Analysis

Array

3D Object

Panels

Primitive Curves

Render

Boolean Operation

Transform

Toolset

Triangulation

Solid

Image

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Tool

vector

Extrude Curve

extrudeSurface

Surface From Curves

surface

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

factor

unitize

Vector Multiply

length

origin

PlaneYZ

plane

first

second

Distance 2 Points

pointsDistance

Unit Vector

unitVector

Reverse Vector

reversedVector

direction

angle

Revolve Surface

crv1

crv2

Sum Surface

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

Extract the normals and center points of all faces in a surface

Surface for normal and center point extraction

Face Normals

centers

normals

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

vectorA

vectorB

Vector Subtract

Surface Edges

edges

faceEdges

Unit vector parallel to the world {z} axis

VectorZ

Rotate an object around a center point and an axis vector

geometry

center

Rotate

rotatedGeometry

ScaleNU

scaledGeometry

Returns a circle with a radius and a center point

radius

Circle

Create an arc defined by start point, end point and a tangent vector

start

Arc SED

Get the coordinates of a point in a plane axis system

point

localPlane

Plane Coordinates

xCoordinate

yCoordinate

zCoordinate

pointA

pointB

pointC

Arc 3Pnt

Create a rectangle using origin, width, length

width

Rectangle

curveA

curveB

Tween Curve

pitch

height

radius1

radius2

leftHand

Helix

startPoint

endPoint

planePoint

countOfSides

Polygon By Edge

outRadius

The radius of the circumscribing circle of a resulting polygon

inRadius

First line constraint. Plane origin will be at line start

lineA

Second line constraint. LineB should be co-planer with but not parallel to LineA

lineB

Plane By 2 Lines

Line

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

Rectangle 3Pnt

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

knots

weights

NURBS Curve PWKD

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 remapping of geometry from one plane to another plane

sourcePlane

targetPlane

Orient

orientedGeo

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

planeA

planeB

Line By 2Plane

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

Name	Type	Description
Point 1	Point	Curve start point
Point 2	Point	Curve end point

Creation method

There are two options for creating an End Points node.

Steps

See also