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Surface Area

surfaceArea

<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

Boolean Operation

Primitive Curves

Text

Surface

3D Object

Vector

Solid

Image

Toolset

Panels

Curve Analysis

Analysis

Array

Render

Triangulation

Intersection

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Tool

curve

radius

Pipe

geometry

point

Geometry Closest Point

Point on the geometry closest to the base point

closestPoint

distance

Parameter in curve domain of closest point

parameter

vector

length

Amplitude Vector

amplitudeVector

Create a nurbs surface from a grid of points

Number of points in the U (horizontal) direction. Must divide total number of points.

uCount

If true, the surface will interpolate the points exactly. If false, it will approximate.

interpolate

Surface From Points

Create a surface from two, three or four edge curves

Surface By Edges

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

plane

Offset a surface with a specified distance

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

offsetType

offsetSize

Offset Surface

offsetSurface

factorX

factorY

factorZ

Vector XYZ

Surface From Curves

Create a surface connecting four corner point

point1

point2

point3

point4

Surface 4Pnt

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

thickness

Side Thickness

solid

Create a point from polar {phi,theta,offset} coordinates

xyAngle

zAngle

offset

Point Polar

polarPoint

Pull Point

Distance between point and its projection onto geometry

profileCurve

Extrude Along

Create a sweep surface with one rail curve

bases

rail

Sweep

Create a point from barycentric {u,v,w} coordinates

pointA

pointB

pointC

Barycentric

barycentricPoint

vectorA

vectorB

Optional plane to determine angle orientation

Angle Vectors

Angle between vectors (oriented if plane is provided)

angle

reflexAngle

origin

PlaneYZ

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

Plane Closest Point

projectedPoint

uvPoint

Mirror Curve By Surface

mirroredCurve

start

Line

Radius of polygon (distance from center to tip)

countOfSides

Polygon

startPoint

endPoint

planePoint

Polygon By Edge

outRadius

The radius of the circumscribing circle of a resulting polygon

inRadius

curveA

curveB

factorA

factorB

Blend Curve

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

Extract the start and end points of a curve

End Points

pointS

pointE

Plane By 3Pnt

Create external tangent lines between circles

circle1

circle2

Tangent Lines (Ex)

tangent1

tangent2

closed

Interpolate

Connect the point to which you want to move

bool

Change Origin

translatedGeometry

Shear an object based on a shearing vector

referencePoint

targetPoint

Shear

shearedGeometry

planeA

planeB

Line By 2Plane

Get the point on evaluates a curve at a specific location

Point On Curve

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

sourcePlane

targetPlane

Orient Vector

orientedVec

Create an ellipse with two radii and a center point

radius1

radius2

Ellipse

Point In Curve

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

relationship

projectPoint

Recursive decomposition until all segments are atomic

recursive

Explode

Exploded segments that make up the base curve

segments

points

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

Voronoi 2D

voronoi

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

Glue mode can be only "Shift" or "Full". It is default "Shift"

Creation method

There are two options for creating a Surface Area node.

Steps

See also