Manipulators of Edge Blend

Manipulators are helper graphic widgets for dynamically defining main numerical parameters of the blend. Manipulators appear automatically once the objects for blending have been selected. Their quantity, look and size depend on the type of blend, the kind of selected objects and the type and values of the parameters modified by them.

Manipulators are displayed in various colors. By default, the active manipulator (the one being currently dragged using mouse) is drawn red, all the rest (inactive) are yellow.

Using manipulators for blending of many edges at once may cause delays in system responses, especially on low-performance computers. To speed up the system in such cases, manipulators can be turned off. This is controlled by the respective checkbox in the Options tab of the Parameters window.

Offset manipulators are always displayed individually for each vertex. Other kinds of manipulators could be either individual for each edge or common for a whole edge chain.

Topics in this section:

•Manipulators of Rounding with Constant Radius

•Manipulators of Rounding with Variable Radius

•Manipulators of Rounding with Variable Convexity

•Manipulators of Chamfer

•Manipulators of Offset