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Edge Curves

Pulls the edges of a mesh out as curves.

outline, rim, edges, seams, trace, piping, wireframe
Category
Emitters
Outputs
mesh
Runs live in
no target yet

The only way to get curves from geometry that already exists. Boundary traces the open rim of a sheet, which is what you want for piping around the edge of a panel. Crease traces the folds between faces, which gives you the structural lines of a shape.

Once the edges are curves, everything that takes a curve applies: sweep a tube along them for piping, grow vines up them, place points along them.

Inputs

SocketTypeWiring
meshgeometry

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultAvailable whenWhat it does
Modeboundary | creaseboundaryalways
Anglenumber30Mode is crease
Radiusnumber1always

1 of these 3 parameters only apply in some settings. The Available when column says which.

Built with this node

Nothing in the manual is built around this node yet.

See also

  • loftTo sweep a section along the extracted edges and make piping.
  • growCurvesTo grow something along the edges of an existing structure.

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