Your First Graph

Step 1 \u2014 Anchor the design to the bed

Every non-trivial graph starts by telling the geometry where to go. The built-in Print Bed node exposes the active printer\u2019s bed centre as a Vector3, so your model follows the machine profile instead of landing in a random corner.

1. Press Shift + A anywhere on the canvas to open the Add Node popup.
2. Type bed and press Enter. A Print Bed node appears under your cursor.
3. Drag it to the far left \u2014 we\u2019ll feed its center output into the next node.

You should see: a small node labelled "Print Bed" with a single output socket on the right.

Step 2 \u2014 Draw the profile

A vase is just a profile, stacked upward. The simplest profile is a circle.

1. Press Shift + A, type circle, press Enter.
2. Drag the Circle node to the right of Print Bed.
3. Drag from Print Bed \u2192 center (right edge) into Circle \u2192 center (left edge). A white-green wire should snap in place.

You should see: a circle appear in the 3D preview, sitting dead-centre on the build plate. If you switch printer profiles, the circle follows.

Step 3 \u2014 Stack it into a vase

Time to make the profile three-dimensional. Node Sculptor has two "profile \u2192 print" stackers:

• Layer Stacker \u2014 discrete layers, one polyline each. Good when you want rotation or scale per-layer.
• Vase Spiralizer \u2014 one continuous spiral, like vase-mode slicers. Silkier walls, no Z-seam.

We\u2019ll use Vase Spiralizer.

1. Press Shift + A, type vase, press Enter.
2. Drag the Vase Spiralizer node to the right of Circle.
3. Wire Circle \u2192 path into Vase Spiralizer \u2192 path.
4. On the Vase Spiralizer node, set Layers to 120 and End Scale to 1.35.

You should see: a gently flaring vase appear in the preview \u2014 still no Output wire yet, so the app is previewing the Vase Spiralizer\u2019s output directly.

Step 4 \u2014 Close the loop with Output

Every finished graph terminates at the Output node \u2014 it\u2019s always there on the canvas, tucked to the right. Connect it and the top-toolbar learns what to export.

1. Wire Vase Spiralizer \u2192 toolpath (orange socket) into Output \u2192 Toolpath (also orange).
2. Look at the top-right of the app: the primary Export button should now read G-code.

You should see: the Toolpath polylines in the preview coloured by extrude / travel. Press F on the canvas to fit the graph into view if it drifted.

Step 5 \u2014 Pin the dials to the viewport

We\u2019re going to make the vase playable. Instead of digging through the graph every time you want to change rib depth or taper, pin the knobs you care about to a floating HUD on the viewport.

1. Right-click the End Scale field on the Vase Spiralizer node \u2192 Add to viewport.
2. Right-click the Layers field \u2192 Add to viewport.
3. Look at the top-left of the 3D preview \u2014 both sliders are now pinned there, with the same BlenderNumField control they had on the node.
4. Drag the sliders \u2014 the vase reshapes live. The fields on the node glow in the accent colour so you always know which values are pinned.

Step 6 \u2014 Save / export / share

Three things you can now do without touching the graph again:

• Undo \u2014 Ctrl/Cmd + Z rolls back the last change (each template apply is one undo entry too).
• Export \u2014 the top-toolbar\u2019s G-code button compiles the toolpath for the active printer profile. If you ever swap to a mesh pipeline, the same button reads Export Mesh and offers STL / OBJ / GLTF.
• Share \u2014 the project JSON carries the graph, the tagged parameters and the viewport pins. Send it to a friend and they see the same design, with the same knobs on the viewport.