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Repair Bevel Normals

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Beveling a mesh with custom normals can lead to unexpected behavior. This tool identifies bevels and replicates Blender's "Harden Normals" functionality found on the bevel modifier.

  • default_bevel
    Bevel with custom normals
  • repaired_bevel
    Repaired Normals

Examples

Be sure to check out the examples file to see Repair Bevel Normals in action.

normal_examples

Requirements

  • Mesh object with beveled faces you wish to fix

  • (Recommended) Set Face Strength to "Affected" or "All" on the bevel modifier

    Face Strength

Options

Bevel Detection

How to detect bevelled faces.

  • Face Strength. Recommended option. Requires setting face strength on bevel modifier to "Affected" or "All"

    • Sharp Bevel Edge. Apply sharp edges to bevel's outer edges.
    • Sharp Bevel Corners. Apply sharp edges to bevel's corners.

  • Face Area. Select bevels by their face area.

    • Max Bevel Area. Faces with area below this value will be treated as bevels

  • Attribute. Use an attribute or vertex group to select beveled faces.

Area Weighting

For weighting normals inside the bevel. Available when Bevel Detection is set to Face Area or Attribute

  • Area Bias. Bend normals towards faces with larger areas. 1 = Direct weight based on area. Higher values will weight more aggressively to larger areas.
  • Area Cutoff. Ignores normals from smaller faces. Cutoff is a percentage of face area compared to the largest connected face

Selection Panel

See Selection options