Mesh Face from Points

About this Block

What it does: The Mesh Face from Points block creates a mesh face from a list of points. Common uses:

Creating support structures
Creating Graphs from Mesh Faces

Tips:

The list of points can only contain 3 or 4 points.
When dragging a point list into the Points field, the auto-populated point list must be deleted first.

Example File

Create Single Face Mesh

Creates a Mesh comprised of a single face from 3 or 4 vertex points. Input the face’s vertices in counter-clockwise order. If out of order, the face will be self-intersecting.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
Vertex 1	Point	The first vertex of the mesh face.
Vertex 2	Point	The second vertex of the mesh face, counter-clockwise from the first. If out of order, the face will self-intersect.
Vertex 3	Point	The third vertex of the mesh face, counter-clockwise from the second. If out of order, the face will self-intersect.
Vertex 4	Point	Optional fourth face vertex, counter-clockwise from the third. If out of order, the face will self-intersect.

Outputs

Type
Mesh

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