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[AWM Mars]

Is there a chamfer function, maybe offering splayed or rounded chamfers for example?

I see the bevel function, but that seems to work on corners and gives simple splays, unless I'm missing something?
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[Jeroen]

Not sure what you mean by chamfer, but it sure sounds like a cool feature to have! Can you explain / show pictures?
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[Grandmaster B]

Is this what you meant?

http://www.blender3darchitect.com/2008/10/how-to-use-the-bevel-modifier-to-chamfer-edges-of-a-model/

Like bevel an edge? Multiple times?

I also need that feature

[chronozphere]

That's a nice feature but tricky to implement. I'd say we give it a "medium" priority.

[Jeroen]

It sure looks like Edge Bevel to me too. I've been working on that in the past but it is tricky indeed.
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[Jeroen]

[AWM Mars]

In the picture of the woodburning stove above, you can see howI applied cyliners and spheres to a cube, then merged those into one object, then used that to extract from a single cube, leaving the profile I wanted.

I could have simply used the 'positive' version of the mould, but normally, doing it the way I did, should result in less facets/vertices etc. Minor misalignments can result in a less effective result, that is why a chamfer function would be more controlable.
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[Jeroen]

I've been working on Edge Bevel a little bit. I managed to implement a very basic edge bevel tool. Works pretty well for a number of cases but doesn't work on selected adjacent edges. Here's what it can do:

- Select the Bevel tool in Edge mode


- I created a cube with one edge selected


- After performing one bevel action (just drag with the mouse in 3D view), it looks like this:


- You can see it automatically selects the new edges. You can perform edge bevel on multiple selected edges (just not adjacent ones atm). After 2 bevel actions, the result is:


- When looked from above, you can clearly see what you can achieve with this new tool. Nicely rounded corners:


Let me know what you think!
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[AWM Mars]

This looks very good I like what you are doing here, excellent work.

Are you planning:
1) To allow the user to set the amount of faces produced, say from 1-Many, via a entry control window? This will allow repeatable functions over many differently sized objects.
2) Singular face planes, to have a angle set box, so you could say add a splay at 45, or 30 etc.. degrees?
3) To add this as a new feature as opposed to taking over the Bevel function, which some may still use (including myself)?

How will this function deal with corners when a bevel/splay is applied to an intersecting edge(s)? (Say a rounded edge intersecting with a splayed edge).
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[chronozphere]

Great! I was allready wondering how long it'd take before you started adding functinoality again. Good to hear that you're on it.

I'd like to play with this when it's released. Possibly I can help improving this tool, and make chamfering adjacent edges possible. I can't promise anything though.

[trucker2000]

Now that's a feature I really like.
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[fik]

Nice and a very useful tool.

[Grandmaster B]

Excellent Jeroen, please put it in the next beta version, even if its not perfect!