Exercise: Creating the Planes
- In the Node Types dialog select the Plane node and drag and drop it into the Graph view. The node plane1 is created.
- Click on the techniques drop down menu (the different possible ways to create this feature based on various combinations of inputs), and select the ByParameterAlongCurve technique. The inputs Curve and T are required to create the plane.
- In the Graph, draw a wire connecting the Curve input to the overall BSplineCurve node on bsplineCurve1.
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Set the
T parameter.
- On the plane1 node click the T input parameter, and enter 0.5 in its expression field.
- Then right click on T parameter, and select Free from the pop up menu.
- (Optional) Test the plane you just created.
- In the Node Types dialog click the Plane node. The node plane2 appears in the Graph view.
- Select the ParallelToPlaneThroughPoint technique for the plane2 node.
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Note: For the Origin, you want the new Plane to follow the initial Plane (plane1) on the path so you can intersect the two.Draw a wire from the Origin input on plane2 to the overall node on plane1.
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For the
Plane input, use the
XYPlane output of the baseCS CoordinateSystem node.
- In the Graph, click the down arrow button on the right side of the baseCS node. A drop down menu appears. This is used to select outputs to pin to the node.
- Click the pushpin icon for the XYPlane output. The XYPlane output is "pinned" to the node.
- Draw a wire from the Plane input on the plane2 node to the XYPlane output on the baseCS node.
- Record User Changes into Transaction file.