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Table Of Contents
- Welcome to Xara 3D Maker 7
- Purchasing and unlocking Xara 3D Maker
- What's New in Xara 3D Maker Version 7
- Other Xara products
- Getting Help
- Working with Xara 3D Maker
- How To ...
- Quick overview
- Open a new document
- Change the text
- Rotate and position the graphic
- Light the graphic
- Color the graphic
- Resize the graphic
- Add bevels & extrude
- Select characters
- Add shadows
- Create animations
- Creating cursor (CUR & ANI) files
- Importing 2D objects
- Apply the style of an existing graphic
- Create buttons, boards, boards + holes and borders
- Create screen savers
- Create Flash files
- Save and export
- Export options for GIF, PNG or BMP files
- Export options for JPG
- Export options for animated cursors (ANI)
- Export options for animated GIFs
- Export options for AVIs (movies and screen savers)
- Export options for screen savers (SCR)
- Export options for Flash bitmap format (SWF) files
- Export options for Flash vector format (SWF) files
- General info on AVI videos
- Exporting transparent title animations for movies
- Customize Xara 3D Maker
- Reference Section
- Legal
Bevel options
The bevel is the join between the sides and face of the graphic or button.
You can also display bevel options by clicking this button in the
options toolbar.
For quick interactive bevels on your design just hover your cursor
over the side of your object and hold the shift key so that your mouse
pointer changes to the bevel tool (see left). You can then just click
and drag the bevels on the object.
Apply to:
If you are using a board, board + holes or border design then you can choose whether to apply these
bevel settings to just the text, the board/border or both.
Bevel types:
This lists the different bevel designs available to you.
Miter/Round: This has an effect on sharp corners or serifs on text. Miter squares off corners, Round
creates smooth, rounded corners.
Depth:
This is the size of the bevel.
Flash file format does not support some bevel types or round corners. Selecting Display as Flash on
the View
menu removes unsupported bevel types from the list and dims miter/round.
Note: We recommend that you don't set the bevel depth to 1 to remove a bevel. Instead set the bevel
type to None
. A small bevel renders much more slowly than no bevel, especially if the bevel contains curves.
Tips
Bevels go along the sides, not the face. So, for example, selecting the Curved
bevel produces a bulge effect to the extruded part. This also means the bevel takes the color of the sides.
(The color of the face can be different to the color of the sides.)
Square faced and Square cornered
bevels are particularly effective when the sides are a different color to the face. This can give the effect of
a two-colored face to the text.
Beveled objects are slower to display than objects with no bevel.
The Miter/Round options affect the corners of objects. Usually text has sharp mitered corners, but you
can round the corners by selecting round. This is usually only obvious for fonts that have sharp corners or
serifs. (Selecting display as flash dims these buttons as Flash vector format supports only miters?more on
creating Flash files
.)
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