Cannot Bevel top section of device

[Rimi]

Hi there

I cannot seem to bevel the top part of the device. Part of the bevel seemed to be missing. 

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Please help. Thanks 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi @Rimi ,

Select the whole Mesh and then: M > Merge > by Distance.

Followed by SHIFT+N.

That will probably fix it.

If not, it would be easiest if you could post a link to your .blend file (via Dropbox for instance).

[Rimi]

Hi Martin

It worked, thank you very much.  

Just a quick question, what is the purpose of shift + N?

Thank you once again!

[Martin Bergwerf]

Each Face has 2 sides, a front and a back. when a model has Faces that are not ‘aligned’, I mean a back Face next to a front Face, weird things might happen (not only when Beveling):

In CG we often speak of Normals when discussing the direction of Faces. SHIFT+N makes those Normals consistent.

[Omar Domenech]

Shift + N is the hotkey for the “Recalculate Normals” operation. You can also find it under Mesh -> Normals where you’ll find some other helpful options. 

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