A lot of problems extruding profile along parth

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#1

Maybe it’s because somewhere, while working with Blender, I set accidentally a wrong option. But problems started with the BEVEL tool. If I selected an EDGE and use the bevel tool, than the X-as was scaled differently that the Y-ax. No nice rounded corners, but more ellipse curved.
This is gone now, but I don’t know why.

But working with profiles and paths is also very odd (unexpected).
When I add a BEVEL object to a the PATH it’s is flattened on the Z-ax and scaled on the X-ax. The Y-ax seams to be unaffected.

In one case, when I moved the BEVEL object over the Y-ax, the extrude (path) object scaled also and it becomes more solid.
In an other case, this previous trick didn’t work. Here I rotated the BEVEL object over the X-ax, showing the extruded object.

In principal I just followed Michaels instructions.

Ad. I think because I didn’t create the bevel-profile object on the X/Y-ax plain … where Z-ax will be the extrusion direction…

#2

Did you try rotate in the bevel in edit mode? If in object mode it doenst effect the result.
Dont know exactly why…

#3

The problem is SCALING.
Scaling as an mesh object (Object mode window, the n-key panel.) and scaling the mesh in the editor (Edit mode) are different things. I encounter this problem several times. Without knowing what’s happening.
But now, when I have this problem, I apply the scale (Object mode, Ctrl+A) to the object. The object stays the same, but the problem is gone. The bevel works as expected.

It think because I apply a scale to a certain ax (x,y,z) in Object mode, instead of in Edit mode. I didn’t know there was a difference.

Thank you for your replay.
Pete

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#4

So, in object mode the mesh stays the same and in edit mode the function of the vector changes to give the impression of scaling?

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