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A Bevel is when you have a hard edge and you shape it down just a little bit to add a Rounded Effect. Your countertop in your kitchen might very well be beveled. Let me go ahead and give you an example. I'll grab a rectangle and let's make believe this is your counter alright so I'm going to draw another rectangle here and your sink and your faucet are over here somewhere and this is the edge of your counter. This is an unbeveled edge, I'll go ahead and get rid of this one and I will grab the Rounded Rectangle and this is what a Bevel looks like. OK nice and round. We can apply the Bevel Effect to a 3D Object. So I'm going to create a Rectangle and I'll give it a fill of let's see, something that we can see, green and I'm going to turn the stroke Off. I'll go to Effects, 3D, Extruding Bevel and I'm going to put Preview on and I'm going to choose Bevel here. As you can see by default its set to none and there are quite a few different bevels in here. Some will take longer to render then others. As you can see we have something called Classic and when you look at a Bevel you look at this shape here. This is called a Profile and its going to give you a Preview as to what the Bevel is going to look like on the edges. Let's go ahead and choose Classic. I'll click OK and I'm going to Zoom in so we can see what we get here. Notice that the edges now have more of a 3D effect. Bevels are really helpful when you try to show light striking a surface. Before, let me go ahead and Undo that Bevel, I'm going to show you what it looks like without a Bevel at all OK? We'll Preview it and as you can see its pretty flat. If you add a Bevel, all of a sudden you give the object more interest. So when you're creating things like furniture or boxes to really sell that its 3D always try to add a Bevel when you can. Now we can go ahead and try a little bit more of a complex bevel and I'll click OK and you'll see the difference we have here. So once again the Bevel will render or resolve itself based on the complexity of your object. Now what I'm going to do is show you something really, really cool. How to create something like a vase or a vase depending on whether your from Jersey which I'm from and you're going to use a regular old path. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to, let me grab my Ruler, I'll press CMD or CTRL R and I'm going to draw out a guide just to help me to keep this object in this line here. So I'm going to create one half of a vase. Alright so I'm going to just go ahead and something like this, just a profile alright. I'll hit the Shift Key and come over here and I'll grab my Direct Selection Tool, I was trying to get a straight line here but I'll just manually move that down and I'll move this out like so. Whenever you create a Profile like this, you have to kind of see your object in your minds eye as if though you cut it in half. And I'm just modifying this shape because I thought that the object would have a point up here, but if you want a scooped in shape, this is what you have to do, you have to kind of build the inside of your object and look at the outside. So think of it as a cross section of whatever it is you're trying to create. Now what I'm going to do is I'll turn my ruler off, I'm going to go back to Effect, 3D but this time we're going to choose Revolve. Now what's going to happen is imagine taking this shape and spinning it around a leaf and we're going to get the wood or whatever we're spinning to turn into this shape. I'll hit Preview and you'll see what I'm talking about. Wahlah you now have yourself a vase. So how does that work? Well Illustrator looks at this shape and it spins it completely around and duplicates it until it has a shape like this and the reason I brought this point in was because I knew that I wanted this to have an inside dip like this. I'll go ahead and Cancel it and I'll go ahead and grab these points and I'll move it up like so. I'll go back to that Effect again, Preview it and we'll have a completely different result. We now have something that is sticking straight up. So this is very handy when you're trying to create something like an engine. You can create chess pieces like this, you can create cups, coffee mugs, or anything that you can think of as far as a cross section. It can be a little tricky at first trying to figure out what it is you're trying to create and the shape you need. But with a little practice you'll get the grasp of it. I'm going to extend this out a little bit and get a nice, big fat vase that looks completely different from the one we just created. So once again I'll select everything and I'll choose to, let me go back to Revolve, I'll Preview and we have a thicker vase here. Don't forget you can always change the position of your object by clicking on this little box and hit OK and your shape will resolve itself. And that is how you can use the 3D Tools in Illustrator to create some very interesting 3D Objects.