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As mentioned in the title, I am trying to rotate faces to conform to their corresponding surface normals. I got the surface normals by calculating them from 3D points (turned to convex polygons, grouped by ID) and extracted the normals as attributes. Then I merged these attributes with flat surfaces (using common IDs) and applied these measures to the surfaces using GeometryPropertySetter. I assumed that would do the trick in rotating the surfaces, but the faces remain completely flat, even with the surface normals applied. Is there something that I am missing, or some other way to do what I am aiming for?

I appreciate any help on this. Thanks a bunch!

I think you will actually need to use a 3DRotator to rotate the planes. Either that or the 3DAffiner, I took a quick look online and found this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2096474/given-a-surface-normal-find-rotation-for-3d-plane

 

There is a pretty good answer here and there is a matrix which you can use in the 3DAffiner.

 

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