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Use the Bevel tool

Use the Bevel tool - Maya Tutorial

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Use the Bevel tool

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- [Narrator] When we model objects, there are many times when we'll have to smooth or round edges. And probably the best tool for this is Bevel. So, let's take a look at how this works. Now, I'm going to start simply so I'm going to go ahead and just select this chair. And let's hide it by hitting Control H. Now, I'm going to start with a simple polygonal cube. So I'm going to select Cube and let's just go ahead and drag out a very simple cube. Now Bevel works best on edges and faces. So, I'm going to start off with edges here. And I'm going to right click over this and go into Edge mode and I'm going to select one, two, three edges. So I'm going to leave this bottom one open. And then we can find Bevel under Edit Mesh, Bevel. Now the Hot Key for this is Control B, which is a very handy one to know. And let's go into our options just so we can see what they are. Now the options for this are the Offset Type. Now by default it's fractional, which means the fraction of the adjacent edge.…

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