Returns a circle with a radius and a center point

origin

radius

Circle

curve

<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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Transform

Vector

Surface

Primitive Curves

Curve Analysis

Triangulation

Render

3D Object

Boolean Operation

Image

Analysis

Solid

Intersection

Text

Toolset

Panels

Array

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Tool

Curve To Surface

surface

Create a sweep surface with two rail curves.

rail1

rail2

sections

Sweep2

direction

angle

Revolve Surface

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

Surface Edges

edges

faceEdges

Construct Point

point

points

Closest Point

closestPoint

index

Distance between the given point and closest point

distance

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

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

vector

length

Deconstruct a vector into its component parts

Deconstruct Vector

PlaneXY

plane

Deconstruct a plane into its component parts

Deconstruct Plane

xAxis

yAxis

zAxis

Offset distance (along base plane z-axis)

Plane Offset

resultPlane

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

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

Scale an object uniformly in all directions

geometry

center

factor

Scale

scaledGeometry

Mirror Curve By Surface

mirroredCurve

Shear an object based on a shearing vector

referencePoint

targetPoint

Shear

shearedGeometry

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

Tangent Arcs

arc1

arc2

closed

Polyline

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

curveA

curveB

factorA

factorB

Blend Curve

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

Measure the length of a curve to and from a parameter

parameter

Length Parameter

lengthAP

lengthPB

Returns the point in the middle of a curve

Curve Middle Point

middlePnt

Get the point on evaluates a curve at a specific location

Point On Curve

Extrude Point

Extrude Curve

extrudeSurface

profileCurve

Extrude Along

Create a pipe surface with variable radii around a rail curve

parameters

A list of radii for every defined parameter

radii

Pipe Variable

Circle Surface

Surface Area

surfaceArea

Offset a surface with a specified distance

Offset type can be only "Arc", "Tangent" or "Intersection". It is default "Arc".

Name	Type	Description	Default Value
Origin	Point	Center of circle	[0,0,0]
Radius	Number	Radius of circle	10

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Circle node.

Steps

See also