Curve

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3D Curve Fill

Fills curves with face in 3d

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N-Gons/Triangles

Fills with single n-gon face or triangulates it

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Adaptive Catenary Splines

Creates physically accurate rope sag effect that maintains its length from a splines with 2 points

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Splines Length

Splines length per spline segment

Splines Resolution

Resolution of the splines per spline segment

Axis Rotation

Rotates spline around its axis

Advect Splines

Instances splines on points and advects/moves splines each step by vector

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Steps

Steps of the splines

Direction

Vector direction that splines moves each step

Align Curve Normal

Aligns curve normal to the Direction vector by tilting it

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Direction

Direction that curve normals will be aligned

Tilt

Tilts curve

Bezier Extend

Extends bezier end point hands with continuity

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Reverse

Extends start point instead of end

Factor

Factor of the extension. Negative value will contract

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Bezier Resample

Resamples bezier curve by subdividing it while leaving original controls points

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Lenth

Length spacing between points

Blend Curves

Blends curves by the minimal distance

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Distance

Minimal distance that curves will be blended

Circle Outer/Inner Tangent Curve

Bevels curve segments in a way that connects circles inner/outer tangnets

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Resolution

Resolution of the bevel

Radius

Radius of the bevel

Up Axis

Axis of bevel

Flip Sides

Flips bevel side

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Curve Banking

Sets curve tilt to create road banking effect depending on curve curvature

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Banking

Amount of banking curve tilt

Blur

Blurs banking tilt for smoother results

Tilt

Tilts whole curve

Curve Bisect

Cuts a curve along a custom plane

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Place Position

Position of cutting plane

Plane Normal

Direction of cutting plane

Flip Direction

Flips cutting plane direction

Curve Intersection

Creates point on curve segment where intersection is find

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2D/3D

  • 2D: Calculates intersection on Z axis

  • 3D: Calculates intersection in 3D space

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3D Distance Threshold

Distance Threshold between found intersection segments

Curve Median Axis 2D

Calculates closed/cyclic curve median axis by converting it to triangular planar mesh calculating voronoi cells

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Resample Length

Resample length

Fill Curve Group index

Curves group id which curves will be converted to a mesh to calulate median axis

Median Edges

Outputs median edges

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Median Mesh

Outputs median mesh

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Median Points

Outputs median points

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Points Radius

Radius of median points

Tip

Median Points can be used to create inflation effect

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Curve Mesh Boolean

Cuts curve using a mesh

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Diff/Inter/Slice

  • Diff: Difference boolean mode

  • Inter: Intersection boolean mode

  • Slice: Slice boolean mode

Intersecting points

Outputs true boolean value on new points that been created from mesh boolean

Warning

Singe curve segment can only be cut one time

Curve Offset

Evenly offsets curve from axis or normal

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Duplicate

Duplicates input curves

Distance

Distance of the offset

Axis Rotation

Rotation of the axis

Offset

Offsets distance offset

Axis/Normal

Uses axis vector or the curve normal

Axis

Axis direction

Curve Point Angle

Calculates curve points angle from its neighbors points

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Angle

Angle output in radians from 0 to 3.14159

Decimate Curve

Removes curve points depending on curve curvature

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Angle

Cuve points greater then angle that points will be removed

Smooth

Smooths curve to minimize the gaps

Warning

Cyclic curves decimate results can be undesirable

Even Curve to Mesh

Makes curve radius even

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Profile Curve

Profile Curve

Fill Caps

Fill Caps

Loft Splines

Connects splines

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Bezier/Catmull/Poly

Interpolation method

Resample Splines

Resamples splines. Tip: Use it if splines has uneven controls points

Resample Count

Resamples spline points count

Subdivide

Subdivides connection between splines

Cyclic Splines

Connects input splines

Cyclic Loft

Connected loft

Poly Arc

Creates circle arcs smootly connected from curve segments

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Resolution

Resolution of each segment arc

Auto Tangent

Automaticaly creates tangent that first curve segment arc will follow

First Point Tangent

Tangent direction that first curve segment arc will follow

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Connect Segment

Connects each arcs segments

Set Cyclic

Connects first arc with the last arc

Arc/Poly

Connection type

Warning

Node only works with single spline and spline can only have maximum of 40 segments. In Blender 4.0 works with unlimited curve segments

Splines Patch

Creates grid patch from 4 splines

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Resample/Set Resolution

  • Resample: Resamples input splines

  • Set Resolution: Set resolution for Bezier splines

U Resolution

Sets grid resolution for rows

V Resolution

Sets grid resolution for columns

Tubes to Splines

Converts mesh tubes to splines

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Sort Index

Choses edge index to compare direction

Epsilon

Value to match direction

Delete Caps

Deletes caps that has more than 4 faces

Warning

Cylinder primitives or manually created cylinders might not work because of random indices

Twist Curve

Evenly offsets curve from axis or normal

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Spline Amount

Duplicates splines

Factor/Lenth

Uses splines factor or lenth paramater for the rotations

Thickness

Distance of the offset from the curve

Rotation

Amount of rotation

UV Curve to Mesh

Creates UV map attribute for curves

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Profile Curve

Profile Curve

Fill Caps

Fill Caps

Factor/Lenth

  • Factor: Scales UV map to curve parameter factor

  • Lenth: Scales UV map to curve lenth

UV Attribute

Attribute name for storing UV attribute on mesh

Pack UV Islands

Packs UV Islands

Margin

Gap between UV islands

Rotate

Rotates UV islands for better packing