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Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion

Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion - Illustrator Tutorial

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Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to bevel the edges of the notes in order to convert this relatively stayed version of the artwork into this more compelling effect here. All right, now as before, my notes are still selected, it's just that my edges are hidden and you can see that's the fact if I press Control + H or Command + H on a Mac. I'm going to leave them hidden and then I'll go ahead and click 3D Extrude & Bevel here inside the appearance panel and I'll turn on the Preview checkbox so I can see what I'm doing. Now, notice this extrude and bevel area right here. You've already seen what happens if you raise or lower the extrusion depth, but let's say that I take it up just a little bit here and I switched to one of the many bevels which are available to me, and notice if you look very closely here, you can see these little cross sections of the bevels. And so the Classic bevel is just going to bend the…

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