Bevel not working right

[product346]

At about the 16min mark. Trying to bevel where the cube.002 and cube 001 meet. When go into edit more and select a, it grabs both so when I bevel it, it goes in and doesn’t curve right.

[Kent Trammell]

Can you post before and after screenshots of what the bevel is doing to your mesh? Or better yet a GIF of the issue. I don’t quite understand what’s happening..

[sprinklelicious]

Yeah I will in a few, Pretty much when I hit Ctrl b to bevel, it’s doing the edges, but making them sharp and not round like in your video. So if I were to bevel and click off, my corners are pointy. Give me a little bit and I’ll send a screenshot.

[Kent Trammell]

@sprinklelicious Ok that sounds like Profile setting in the bevel options is set to 1.0 and not 0.5 (default).

[product346]

Here’s a picture. 

[Kent Trammell]

@product346 What in tarnation…Can you provide a download link to your .blend file so I can take a closer look? The best way to do this is by uploading to dropbox, google drive, or equivalent file hosting service and copy + pasting a link.

[product346]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dtMUH-tKiR8bTV-pMr4gEJwTqDCPcZrb

I think I did it right.

[product346]

I really don’t want to have to restart but I will if need be. Was going to last night but thought I should try for help first.

[spikeyxxx]

Hi product346!

I can’t see your .blend (access denied), but from your Screenshot i’d say that your Normals are not consistent.

A bevel (with one segment) is created by making a plane, perpendicular to the Normal. An Edge bevel makes it perpendicular to the Edge’s Normal. An Edge Normal is calculated as the ‘middle’ (angle-wise) of the Normals of the two adjacent Faces.

Here is what I think happened in your case:

There are three very important shortcuts, that you should use all the time:

SHIFT+N to recalculate your Normals (in Edit Mode with everything selected).

ALT+M > Merge by Distance (to remove double vertices).

And last but not least: CTRL+S to save your file!

[sprinklelicious]

I will try and re upload it when I get home. I’ll try what you said first though. Worst case I’ll restart. Could use the experience being it’s been a while since I’ve done this.

[spikeyxxx]

BTW. here’s another thing that can happen when your Normals are messed up (that’s why this is called abnormal behavior..).

https://blog.cgcookie.com/forums/topic/collab-2021-wip-duerer/

[product346]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c60zYA1TZUfKr9hbWm12Rpur03bxrs6C 

try that one

[spikeyxxx]

You didn’t only have messed up Normals, but also double vertices:

Look at the number of Verts (bottom right). That should be16 (4 at each corner, it is only one ‘Cube’).

Select all and ALT+M, this will remove 40 Vertices and leave you with this:

Now use SHIFT+N to recalcluate the Normals (because they are not all blue) and you’re good to go. Bevel away:

[sprinklelicious]

When I do alt m it just deletes them

[sprinklelicious]

Nevermind, got it. Thank you so much for the help.

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