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Turning extrudes on and off
EXTRUDE ON/OFF

Once a shape or other object has been extruded, there are only limited modifications that
can be made to the original object with the extrusion in place. For example, if you've
extruded a shape, it's not possible to then edit that shape in the SHAPE TOOL (on page
128) because it's no longer a simple 2D shape that you can interact with. However, using
this control you can temporarily turn the extrusion off, so that you can see and modify the
underlying object using other tools, before turning the extrude on again. After making a
modification and turning the extrusion on again the extrusion is re-applied to your
modified 2D object, with all the same 3D attributes that it had when you turned off the
extrude.

Note that in some cases if you dramatically change the form of the object while the
extrusion is turned off (such as changing it to a completely different type of object), the
3D extrude attributes you applied may not be preserved. In such cases you should be
able to use PASTE FORMAT/ATTRIBUTES to copy the attributes from a copy of your original
extrude before the modification. See Copying styles: Paste attributes (on page 107).

Extrusion depth
The easiest way to adjust the depth of an extrusion is to simply click and drag on it, as
described above. However, you can also use the slider on the left of the EXTRUDE TOOL
InfoBar to adjust it. Make sure that EXTRUDE DEPTH is selected in the dropdown list to the
left of the slider (this is the default setting) and then use the slider to adjust the extrude
depth. The current extrude depth is shown in a numeric field to the right of the slider, and
you can also enter extrude depth values directly into that field to set an exact extrude
depth.

Bevel Type & Size

The bevel type determines the profile of the extruded side of your 3D shape and of its
edges and corners. By default it's set to rounded which gives a flat side with rounded
corners. The bevel type dropdown list contains a large selection of different bevel types
you can choose from. You can adjust the size of the bevel using the slider to the right of
the bevel type list. To the right of the bevel size slider is a numeric field showing the
current bevel size and you can enter exact bevel sizes into this field.

An alternative shortcut to adjust the bevel size is to drag on the side of the 3D object
holding "Ctrl" (while in the EXTRUDE TOOL).

Lights

LIGHTS ON/OFF

You can adjust the lighting of your shape in 3D space by turning on the lights. There are
3 lights, each of which can be given their own color and position in 3D space around the
3D shape.