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Important

Deprecated. This node is no longer in the menus. Use Explode, which answers for every shape and takes a group apart a layer at a time. Documents built with this node still open and still work.

Explode Segment (node)

A segment's two endpoints (Start, End).

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Note

The input is a wildcard. Its socket is typed any (grey), not segment/curve (green). Every Explode node takes any geometry and pulls out the parts its name implies - a consequence of a node's output sockets being fixed when it's defined. So you can feed in mixed geometry and get just the segments' endpoints back. (Whether Explode Segment should instead reject non-segment input is under review - #162.)

Inputs

• Segment (any): the segment to break apart.

Outputs

• Start (point): the segment's first endpoint.
• End (point): the segment's other endpoint.

What it is for

Hands back a segment's two endpoints, so the graph can build from where a line already is rather than from typed coordinates: a circle centered on one end, a midpoint between two segments' ends, a measurement taken across them.

Start and End come out as matching lists, one entry per segment, so a whole set explodes at once.

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