Questions tagged [bevel]
questions about blender's bevel modifier, text beveling, or the bevel tool in edit mode.
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How to create this curved 90-degree-angle quickly
I want to make this:
from this:
I created the beveled edge by beveling on the cube, then beveling the inner edge, however that resulted in a weird diamond shape:
So I ended up disolving edges and ...
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Why doesn't bevel work on my object?
I have made an object out of a cube, that I applied boolean and mirror modifiers. Now when I apply Bevel, I don't see anything. I want it to have slightly rounded edges and corners.
It doesn't seem ...
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Modeling a twisty tree: How do I twist a beveled curve?
Hello Blender community!
First time posting.
I’m a fairly recent 3D NOOB playing around with Element 3D and C4D renderer in After Effects, and I have a project that’s allowing me to dig deeper into ...
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First time using bevel tool, doesn't bevel evenly. What am i doing wrong? [duplicate]
First off I'll let you know I'm a total noob at blender I've used 3ds Max up until this point, but the company I'm working for at the moment needs me to use blender so I'm trying to make the ...
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Creating "sharp" chamfer in blender fast
This is pretty common way of chamfering hard edges in CAD modelling different product casing.
I was wondering is there an addon, script or blender function out there that i don't know that can ...
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Is it possible to get automatic smooth edges with flat faces without adding geometry?
I'm new with Blender and this seems like a simple thing but I haven't been able to find the answer.
The only way I've been able to find to get smooth edges while retaining flat faces is to add extra ...
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Radius on beveled curve incorrect
The bevel depth (the radius of the tube) is set to 9cm but it actually isn't when compared to the background grid. This is is confirmed by importing it into sketchup and scaling it to the proper units ...
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Creating half-cylinder walls in a mesh
I am new to blender and am having trouble inserting "inward beveling" the walls of my mesh. I am using 2.91 of Blender.
I have the walls defined - below:
I am using cylinders as templates ...
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Mesh won't bevel
I have two identical objects (at least I cannot find a difference), but one can be beveled, the other not. Any idea why? I already looked for double vertices.
The blender file (version 2.8) can be ...
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Create a complex pattern on a face
I have a sample like this, and I can't find out the method to create the bevel pattern around the circle
The most I need is your way to create it
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Add deflection in middle of edge (catenary curve)
I'm very new to Blender and trying to use it to design cut patterns for a tent I plan to sew. In tent design, you need to add catenary curves to edges so they tension the panels nicely. For instance, ...
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How to create an arch (vault) that is curved inside?
I've been struggling for several weeks' time to get this right. I have ideas, but nothing that is efficient to get the same look. I tried using half-spheres and cuts from spheres to do it, but I just ...
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Bevel Tool – What exactly does LoopSlide do?
Just for curiosity.
I don't find enough information about this, even in documentation.
I don't see any difference when I use it.
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Changing bevel angle
I am working on a model, and now I have stumbled upon a problem. I want to change the angle of my bevel, but all this while its still non-destructive. Is there a way to do this, without the need of ...
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How can I make square and triangular rings?
I'm new to Blender and trying to make two simple objects: square and triangular rings.
I started with a square object (using a cube) and applied bevel on its edges. Unfortunately, this is the best I ...
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How can I Bevel this sphere correctly?
I'm modeling this lamp, and when I try to make that curve, with the edge selected in the image at its center, the bevel doesn't limit itself within the other two edges at both sides, it extends as I ...
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How to bevel only one end of a cylinder?
I'm trying to make a cylinder with one end beveled and the other end sharp edged, like a bullet shape. But whatever I do blender alway bevels both ends. I tried creating a vertex group with all the ...
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Built-in Cycles Bevel Shader customization
There is a new feature now in master that can be used by downloading daily build of Blender:
https://builder.blender.org/download/
It's bevel shader for Cycles. I tested it and it works great. ...
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Can a curve with a bevel profile have 2 materials
Dear friends and fellow Blenderheads, could you give me a hand with that profile? I have curve with a bevel profile - basically a lofted cornice. And it should have a cover on top. Is there a ...
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Modelling a full Windsor knot on a necktie
I'm trying to model the steps involved in tying a full Windsor knot. The very first step is getting the fatter/thicker end through a loop. In my model, towards achieving this first step, I reached ...
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How to I create text with a rounded face? [duplicate]
After spending the best part of 2 days on this I'm still totally baffled. I'm trying to create a badge to be 3D printed and I'm having trouble getting the text to look right. The effect I'm going for ...
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Is there a possibility to create non rounded corners with bevel tool or bevel modifier?
Is it possible to create sharp / pointing vertex with bevel tool or modifier the way it is shown on the right cube?
I am able only to create the type of bevels as on the left cube - to get the ...
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Do I need a subdivision modifier to create a hard-surfaced object
I'm currently in the process of modelling a handgun, this is one of the reference images that I am using:
Looking at it closely, it looks as if a majority of the edges have a small bevel on them to ...
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Bevel question: it is possible to bevel in different directions?
Here is a cube with the edge beveled and behind that is a normal cube to better explain.
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My question is: is there a way to bevel an edge so that is not uniform as in picture 1?
In picture 2 I ...
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Bevel only certain edges with Bevel Modifier
I am trying to bevel only some edges on my cube and I manage to do so with the bevel tool, but I fail with the bevel modifier. I tried adding those edges, which I also selected when using the tool, to ...
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Must bevel be used in every situation?
My question is simple: Should I use bevel on everything to make it look more realistic?
On what circumstances should bevel be used?
I have been experiencing artifact problems when I bake normals from ...
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What is the equivalent of sweep on a rail in Rhino? Bevel is not working for me
I'm a jewelry designer and fairly new to Blender... This is my first time asking a question on the stack exchange.
I was trained in Rhino a few years ago and I remember the function "sweep on a rail"...
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How to bevel selected edges in non-destructive way?
Before submitted that question I have made quite extetensive research and could not find the answer. I am quite new to Blender so I believe there is a chance the answer to my question might be simple ...
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How do I replicate this asymmetrical bevel?
I am rebuilding this mesh from scratch with primitives, but it has a bevel that is non-uniform:
CTRL + B on the top of a cylinder will add a uniform bevel across the whole top of the cylinder:
Any ...
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Edge Bevel Weirdness
I was working on a model when I encountered this problem while trying to bevel an edge. I'm not sure what's causing this even after I've tried merging duplicate vertices and applying the scale. If ...
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How much should I bevel?
I want to know how the shape, size and material of an object would affect its bevel?
(for it to have closer to realistic bevel, for photo-realism)
For example in the real world how would the bevel ...
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Bevel an inset face with resulting clean edges
When I bevel this Edge (which is parallel to X-Axis)
I always end up like this:
But actually I want this (without the faces that I colored blue)
I extruded the inset face without further scaling ...
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Shading Becomes Darker With Animated Bevel Geometry on a Curve
The blue part is a bezier curve with bevel geometry turned on. When I animated the End property, mid-way the shader abruptly goes dark for a few frames.
The curve only has 4 control points.
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How to apply a bevel modifier, so that it affects only specific edges?
I am trying to apply a bevel modifier to a box with some additional buttons, however, I am struggling to apply the bevel modifier only to the top face and the edges that are connected to that face. In ...
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Bevel end blending
Still very nooby at this, so bear with me.
Are there easy ways to tidy up the end of bevels like this? I'd like to bevel the edge but not the center part.
Looking more for this shape, but with the ...
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How do I make bevel equal on both sides of the edge? [duplicate]
I am new to Blender and learning little as I go. I notice that when I bevel on a cube's edge with n-segments, the effect is a nice even bevel (quarter circle). However, if I make a rectangle (as shown ...
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Shading issues on the edges when using bevel and subdivision surface modifier
Using Blender 3.5. I am modelling this rook chess piece and having some weird shading issues. Here, in the image, the place where the rook's top wall and window meet, I have the shading problem. I ...
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Are there any quicker ways to simplify this bevel I have on the bottom of this bottle?
So far I've been using the Collapse Edges & Faces feature to collapse each bit one by one, but I was curious if there's a faster way to simplify this bevel so the mesh looks better. I'm definitely ...
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How to render gease pencil in cycles in blender 2.8
How can I render grease pencil lines in cycles? Other stack exchange questions explain that you need to bevel the lines, but that option seems to have disappeared. I have markings on some objects that ...
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How can I bevel the edges of a cylinder with multiple faces?
I have a cylinder that I have used the Boolean Modifier to take out some shapes. This has caused multiple faces to be generated.
I have tried to reduce the amount of faces on a cylinder with dissolve ...
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Clamp Overlap cancels Bevel effect
I have this table:
When I activate "Bevel", there is this incorrect face:
If I activate "Clamp Overlap" the problem disappears, but also the bevel effect:
How to solve this?
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How do I maintain quads and shading after this bevel?
I'm trying to keep everything in quads and at the same time maintain a good shading on this mesh.
This is the bevel operation:
Now I know that I can maintain the quads with this method, but ...
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Bevel the top half of an object or just the top half of a selection using geometry nodes
How can I Bevel the top half of an object or just the top half of a selection.
I have a well plate object created in Geometry nodes.
When I use the Bevel modifier it of course does the entire object.
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How can I bevel geometry that approximates a curve?
Consider a mesh like this:
This one is created by bisecting a sphere with some planes and then carving out another sphere out of it with the Boolean operator, but for the purposes of this question, ...
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Bevel problem at intersection
After hours of trying I still don´t get why the bevel doesnt work the way I want it to.
When I bevel this edge for some reason it does weird things at the intersection instead of simply beveling with ...
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Blender - How to taper a bevel?
I am trying to mimic the design of this piece but I am stuck at creating the corners of the model. How would I bevel an edge in such a way so that the bevel tapers in like shown in the picture? How ...
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Round beveled text [duplicate]
Is there easy way of having a rounded bevel on text… ie like so…
It was painful to model this on the text and when I added a bevel I got all sorts of bad geometry and had to rebuild it etc, like so…
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Superellipse bevel with unevenly distributed edges?
I want to create a simple box shape with rounded corners. This is, of course, easy enough to do with a simple bevel of the relevant edges:
However, this approach has a minor problem. With certain ...
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Bevel the inside of a hole
Note: I'm relatively new to Blender, so apologies if terminology a bit confused or just plain wrong :-)
I've created a bowl by subtracting a UV Sphere from a slightly larger one with a Boolean ...
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Intersections in 3d model
How can I remove some intersections in my model?
They cause wrong slicing for my printer.
The model consists of a path curve and a profile curve.
I use the bevel in the path curve with the object the ...
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