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Figure 6-22
Note
You don't necessarily have to work with
these prefab rails for rail beveling. It's just
that I've already built them to fit the dimen-
sions with which we're working; the values
in the Numeric: Rail Bevel window shown in
Figure 6-23 will give you
exactly
what you're
looking at in this topic.
If you find the ornamentation that these
prefab rails produce too staid for your
tastes, by all means feel free to create your
own rails to rail bevel. When building your
own rails, it's best if they span the distance
you want the actual ornamentation to cover,
so the value you enter for Shift is +/-100%
(depending on an obscure combination of
the poly's normal and the rail's start point).
The rail should also be positioned along the
X axis so that it silhouettes the shape you
want to create (the Molding_Rail file with the
flooring in the background touches the right
edge of one of the flooring sections). With
the rail in the side view and positioned
along the X axis, adjusting the Inset value
will make the geometry generated by the
Rail Bevel tool “push” more and more to
conform to the rail in the background layer.
If you've already approved the shape of the
rail, you know the new geometry has an
appropriate height/depth ratio when the
Inset value makes the new geometry line up
perfectly with the rail's profile in the back-
ground layer.
36. Once again, we're going to load in a
prefabricated piece to use in rail bevel-
ing the floor molding. Load
Objects\
Chapter06\Molding_Rail.lwo
. Copy
and paste it onto a blank foreground
layer of your floor plan work-in-prog-
ress. With it alone on the foreground
layer, select
View | Viewports | Fit
Selected
so you'll have a clear view of
it when you do your rail bevel.
