Special

Special features for specific situations.

ESP (Exclude Selected Points)

ESP allows you to select points which are on the polygon(s) you are beveling, and have VertiBevel ignore either the inset or shift (determined by whether they are on the edge or not).  Edge points will be shifted, but not inset.  Inner points will NOT be shifted or inset.  This can be very useful in certain situations.

Example 1: Exterior Points

This shows a selected polygon, with two points selected (two screen-shots were overlaid on each other to show correlation). It has not yet been beveled.

By selecting points on the polygon(s) that we will be beveling, and selecting ESP, we can tell VertiBevel to do special things with those points.  In the following example, we are selecting exterior points (the only kind available in this case), to specify that we don't want then inset.

After beveling with the ESP feature on, we can see that the selected points were shifted, but not inset.

 

Example 2: Interior Points

This time we will be selecting interior points, which will not be shifted when we bevel.

We have selected some polygons, and some interior points.

The points we selected have remained in their original position, only the unselected points have been shifted by VertiBevel.

The selected points have not been shifted.

 

Another view.

It should be noted that using this feature can cause un-planar polygons.  These should be tripled, or used in MetaNURBS objects.

Both Interior and Exterior points may be selected at the same time.  Each point will be treated as appropriate.

VertiBevel Documentation - This page last updated 07/07/99