Practice exercise

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This is a practice exercise video solution

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for this practice exercise.

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We're going to begin with the supplied data set, bevel edged

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detail dot F 3D.

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We're gonna be using the bevel tool to add some harder edges to this design.

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First, we're gonna select the design. We

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want to go to utilities and change the display mode to box display.

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When we're taking a look at a design and box display,

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this helps us better identify and understand

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where some sharper transition should be.

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We can see that we might have a sharper transition on this edge

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as well as this edge,

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this edge here and potentially down here.

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If I go back to a smooth display,

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we can see exactly which edges we might want to tighten up our design,

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we're gonna say, OK.

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And with those edges selected, go to modify and select bevel edge,

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we're gonna change the bevel location to 0.1

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which will allow us to go 10% of the way from our selected edge

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toward the next available edge in both directions.

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Using the segments of one will allow us to remove our selected edge and add an edge.

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what this allows us to do is create a nice tight transition in those areas.

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We can see as we rotate our design around.

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And if we use our view options for visual style, just to shade it,

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we can see now we have some tighter transitions on the overall edges of our design.

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This can really help take a design to the next level

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by allowing us to control those transitions a bit better.

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Keep in mind that if you ever make a mistake,

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you can always double click on an edge and hit delete to remove it.

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But this will change the location of that edge.

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We're gonna use control Z to bring it back and make

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sure that we save our design before we move on.