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description: "What you should know first: The all-new Bevel tool has very little in common with the old tool - and leaves almost nothing more to be desired! Bevel turns …"
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# Bevel Tool

**What you should know first: The all-new Bevel tool has very little in common with the old tool - and leaves almost nothing more to be desired! Bevel turns harsh edges and corners into flattened, rounded, soft elements.**

The various component modes produce the following results:

![Image: 037114.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/037114.jpg)\
Bevel works differently in each component mode.

What the **Bevel** tool can do with points, edges and polygons is explained in the description of the individual settings. A taste of possible edge bevels can be seen here:

![Image: 037115.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/037115.jpg)\
Various modes for beveling edges.

# Use

![Image: 037117.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/037117.jpg)\
Note the tool handles’ various icons.

The **Bevel** tool has a two-level interactivity integrated into it that works as follows:

- First, click and drag in the Viewport to bevel the selected elements (only **Offset** will be modified interactively). Release the mouse button.
- In the next step, you can now interactively modify the tool's **Offset** and **Depth** settings by clicking and dragging on the corresponding colored handles.

There are basically 3 white tool handles available in Use Edge mode (other modes are similar) that are displayed in the Viewport:

- Those on both outer edges created by the **Offset** value from the original edge (Edge Offset Handle).
- Those on the new edge profiles that lie perpendicular to the previously described handles, which can be used to adjust the **Depth** (Edge Depth Handles).
- The polygon handle that is only visible in Use Polygon mode that is used to adjust the **Extrusion**

The following special features are available when in Use Polygon mode:

- If a white polygon edge is grabbed, **Offset** and **Extrusion** can be adjusted separately by dragging the mouse horizontally and vertically, respectively.
- If a polygon surface is grabbed, **Offset** and **Extrusion** can be adjusted simultaneously and proportionally to one another when the mouse is dragged.
- You can bevel interactively by pressing the LMB+ one of the following keys (move the mouse left or right in an empty region of the Viewport):\
  - `Ctrl/Cmd`: **Extrusion** will be varied (only in Use Polygon mode)\
  - `Shift`: **Offset** will be varied\
  - **no key**: **Offset** and **Extrusion** will be varied simultaneously

The following special features are available when in Use Edge mode:

- `Ctrl/Cmd`+click on a white edge lets you make sub-selections (`Ctrl/Cmd`+click again to deselect; click on empty region to deselect all), which lets you define **Offset** separately for the sub-selected edges (either using the mouse or directly in the **Attribute Manager**’s **Offset** setting):

![Image: 037118.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/037118.jpg)\
Use sub-selection to define different **Offset** to individual edges without having to leave the tool to make a new selection.

You can also set values for individual edges separately without making sub-selections by pressing the `Ctrl/Cmd` key.

- If a sub-selection has been made and you select another white edge (with a different **Offset** value) using the `Ctrl/Cmd` key, both offset profiles will be modified proportionally - not by the same value.