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546 Chapter 8: Modifiers
Traditional beveled text uses all levels with these
typical conditions:
• Start Outline can b e any va lue, usually 0.0.
• Level 1 Outline is a positive value.
• Level 2 Outline is 0.0. No change from Level 1.
• Level 3 Outline is the negative of Level 1.
Returns Level 3 to the same size as the Start
Outline.
Bevel Profile Modifier
Select a shape. > Modify panel > Modifier List > Bevel
Profile
TheBevelProfilemodifierextrudesashapeusing
another shape path as the "beveling profile." It’s a
variationonthe
Bevel modifier (page 1–542) .
Impor tant: Bevel Profile fails if you delete the original
beveling profile. Unlike a loft object, which incorporates
the shape, Bevel Profile is simply a modifier.
Note:
Although this modifier might s eem similar
to a loft object with varying scale settings, it’s
actually different because it uses different outline
values as distances between line seg ments rather
than as sca le values. This more complex method of
resizingashaperesultsinsomelevelshavingeither
more or less vertices than others, and generally
worksbetterwithtext,forexample.
Bevel Profile creates an object u sing an open spline.
Bevel Profile creates an object using a closed spline, yielding
a different result.
Procedure
To use the B evel Pr ofile modifier:
1.
Create the shape you want to bevel (preferably
in the Top viewport).
2. In the Front (XZ) viewport, create a shape to
use as the beveling profile.
3. SelectthefirstshapeandapplytheBevelProfile
modifier.
4. ClickthePickProfilebuttonintheBevelProfile
modifier, and then click the profile shape.