Polygon Bevel

Enables or disables the Polygon Bevel tool.

Sets the coordinates from Model Space to World Space where vertices are defined relative to an origin common to all the objects in a scene.

Both Shift and Inset accept positive or negative values. When the values are positive Shift and Inset work as described above. When the values are negative, Shift moves the original polygons back behind their original location and Inset scales the polygons to be larger than their original size.

Each of the Shift and Inset values can be edited by hauling in the 3D viewport, dragging tool handles, or by using the HUD sliders (HUD sliders require advanced handle viewing to be active). You can also edit these values numerically on the tool properties sheet.

Under Shift and Inset this field allows you to set a random value range for the Shift and Inset value. If you have a Shift value of 1 meter and a +/1 value of .5 meters, the resulting bevel(s) are between .5 and 1.5 meters. This can be useful when beveling many polygons simultaneously.

This toggle option determines whether the resulting polygons are created in such a way as to allow them to fall inside the original polygons boundaries, or so that they are outside the original polygon. The default, Inner, is the preferred choice for most bevel scenarios.

The Outer option is very useful when beveling polygons that are not attached to other polygons. The classic example of using the Outer option is for beveling text. In this case you may want the original text polygons to maintain their scale, but would like to bevel an edge outside the original polygons.

This option also enables the Material Name field. When this option is active, any new polygons created by the bevel tool have this Material Name assigned to them.

Provides a quick method for beveling contiguous polygon selections essentially treating the entire selection as a single polygon. This is incredibly useful for adding fine fillets around selections by creating a series of bevels.

Adds flipped copies of the source polygons to add thickness to the operation.

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• Bevel Thicken Polygon

Specifies the number of edge segment along the bevels shift direction. If it is 0 and a 1D profile is selected, the bevel tool automatically decides the best adaptive segments for the profile.

Adds quadrangles at each sharp corner of the boundary polygons. When Group Polygons is enabled, squares are created at the corner vertices connected to the selected polygon(s).

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• Bevel Square Corner

Makes the vertex distance of the inserted face even. This option is enabled by default. When this option is disabled, the edge length between source vertex to the new source vertex is the same as set Inset value. See Shift/Inset.

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• Bevel Offset Even

This option works with the Group Polygons option. When this option is enabled, the new vertex from the source vertex is created along an inner edge, which is connected to the contour source vertex. If there are multiple inner edges, the most perpendicular to the contour edge is selected.

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Shifts vertices along averaged vertex normal vector computed from connecting polygon face normals. When the angle between faces are less then Max Smoothing Angle, the averaged normal are computed per smoothing face group and then combine the separated normal vectors as the shift vector. This is useful when beveling polygon group with very sharp edges.

The group Polygon Bevel uses vectors in vertex normal map for the shift vector when Use Vertex Normal Map is enabled and the mesh has vertex normal map.

Reverses the inset of the profile. If this option is enabled, the value specified for the Inset is reversed. See Shift/Inset.

When enabled, Keep Aspect automatically sets the Inset value based on the aspect ratio of the profile. See Shift/Inset.

This control allows you to choose three UV creation methods. The default, None, creates the UVs for the new faces inside the existing UV coordinates attempting to bevel the UV data along with the mesh. The U and V options create a completely new set of UV data in the negative UV coordinates with the newly created polygons fanned out in the user selected axis (U or V). These options can be tremendously useful when beveling the geometry results in overlapping UV data, as it creates a more manageable starting point for the UV set.