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Chamfer box showing extruded polygon
Extrude S ettings—Opens the Extr ude Faces
dialog (page 1–1073)
,whichletsyouperform
extrusion via interactive manipulation.
If you click this button after p erforming an
extrusion, the same extrusion is performed on the
current selection as a preview and the dialog opens
w ith Extrusion Height set to the amount of the last
manual extrusion.
Outline—Lets you increase or decrease the
outside edge of each contiguous group of selected
polygons.
Outline is often used after an extrusion or bevel to
adjustthesizeoftheextrudedfaces.Itdoesn’tscale
the polygons; only changes the size of the outer
edge. For example, in the following illustration,
note that the sizes of the inner polygons remain
constant.
Click the Outline Settings button to open the
Outline S elec ted Faces dialog, which lets you
perform outlining by a numeric setting.
Extruded polygons (top), outli ne expanded (middle), outli ne
reduced (bottom)
Note that size of inner polygons do esn’t chang e.
Bevel—Lets you perform manual beveling via
direct manipulation in the viewport. Click this
button, and then drag vertically on any polygon
toextrudeit.Releasethemousebuttonandthen
move the mouse vertic ally to outline the extrusion.
Click to finish.