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Old 15th October 2005, 07:41 PM   #1
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It would be nice if on the Surface -> Bevel command, we had an option to join "inner edges" of a selection so they didn't bevel apart.

For example, I have this shape:



Here's what I get when I bevel it:



I would like to be able to bevel it like this (I got this result be extruding it and manually repositioning the vertices to bevel it inward):



Just another "would-be-nice" for now. Something I could probably make a plugin for, actually, but didn't know if it was a great effort for Inivis to modify the existing bevel with an option...?

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Old 16th October 2005, 08:24 AM   #2
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Your object is made of many pieces. Try to remake it, so it will be one polygon.
Just like this:
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Old 16th October 2005, 09:57 AM   #3
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Thanks for the help, but it isn't always practical to join all of the surfaces in a set of polys.

As the target of a subdivision operation, I tend to keep quads for geometry wherever possible, especially when it forms a concave object like this one --- here's a subdivision sample using the same geometry - you really need to keep certain objects as multiple polys...



There are other advantages to keeping your surfaces divided, such as being able to copy/separate sections of an object at a time.
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