Advanced Bevel

Every release, newest first

Every release of the add-on, newest first. One package covers Blender 3.3 – 5.2: a modern extension on 4.2+, a classic add-on on 3.3 – 4.1.

1.1.0 — 24 September 2026

The bevel now handles structural edges: edges that run into existing geometry, and the corners of a box or a whole rounded strip. Corners can be sent back to a point you choose, and merged corners, wide rounds and Clamp Overlap all hold their shape.

Added

A reset point for your corners. Reset (the chip, or Z) used to put a corner back to plain defaults. Now it puts it back where it was when you started the tool. Liked a shape halfway through? Click Set Reset Point (or Shift + Z) and Reset returns there instead. It works per corner, so you can reset one corner while its neighbours keep their edits.

Structural edges. Bevel edges where three or more bevelled edges meet (the corner of a box, or a whole rounded strip selected at once) instead of being turned away. Where the edges meet, the geometry is exactly what Blender's own bevel builds, at any width. Every corner around it is still a handle you can widen, spread and give vertices.

The foot of an extrusion is one outline. Bevel the ring of edges around the base of an extruded shape and it comes up as one outline with its own corners, where it used to be a separate little corner for every face around it. A round corner grows around its own centre, and its first and last vertices go out square to the straight sides beside them. On the extrusion's wall, the matching round is one corner too, and spreading it slides it along the wall.

Edit Corners is in the Bevel. Shift + Alt + C opens the corner editor on its own, as the Inset has it. With both add-ons installed it appears once in Blender's menus.

Paste a vertex count. Copy a round corner and paste its vertex count onto another. A corner that is still a single vertex takes it too. The row is labelled N vertices, so you can see what you are pasting.

The shortcuts panel sits on the left, clear of the toolbar and the sidebar. A new preference, Shortcuts panel, puts it on the right instead.

Changed

Clamp Overlap brings Auto Merge with it. With Clamp Overlap on, a bevel that runs into the structure beside it joins it on confirm instead of stopping dead against it. Auto Merge is still one key (M) away if you want it off.

Round corners keep their shape from the start. On a face bevelled along part of its outline, a rounded corner used to start on Blender's shrinking offset until you nudged its spread. It now starts in Keep Shape, the way it ends up anyway.

A rounded run is one corner. A round made of many small faces used to come up as a corner per face, each a single vertex. It is one corner now, which you can spread, give vertices and merge.

A pasted spread is the same size on any corner. Spread is copied as a length, so 0.3 copied off a round corner is 0.3 on a sharp one.

The first drag grows outward. A preference, First drag, changes it back.

Fixed

Clamp Overlap stops a bevel that runs into other geometry. An edge whose end meets an existing bevel could be driven straight through it, however wide it was asked for. It now stops at the vertex it runs into. With Auto Merge on it lands on it and welds there when you confirm.

Merging corners is stable. Merging the corners over the top of a rounded face could send the merged corner sliding down its sides, with long edges running up from the corners below. A merged corner now keeps one clean arc between its sides, with Auto Merge on or off. A single round that turns further than about 140 degrees holds the bevel's width all the way round.

Faces cut into a fan of triangles bevel cleanly. A round with a fan of triangles beside it could have its outline read out of order, which threw vertices across the face.

Spreading a round slides its ends along the straights. Spread on a round at the foot of an extrusion now slides its ends along the straight sides, and Clamp Overlap stops it before it runs off the face or into the extrusion.

1.0.1 — 21 September 2026

Fixed

The corner handles are visible again on the Vulkan backend. On Blender set to Vulkan (Preferences ▸ System ▸ Backend), the coloured dots marking each corner did not appear, while OpenGL showed them normally. The tool itself worked throughout — only the dots were missing, so an edit could be made but not aimed.

The handles are drawn as GPU points, and the Vulkan backend ignores the requested point size for the shader the add-on used, which left every handle one pixel wide. They are now drawn with Blender's dedicated point shader, which honours the size on both backends. Nothing changes if you use OpenGL: the handles are drawn exactly as before.

Reported by a customer, and confirmed by measuring what actually reaches the screen on Blender 5.2 under both backends.

1.0.0 — First release

A bevel whose rounded corners hold their shape as the width grows.

What it does

• Built on Blender's own bevel topology: the result starts where Blender would put it, and then every corner becomes a handle you can edit before you confirm.
• Per-corner control: width, spread, vertex count, profile shape and segments, each on the corner you pick rather than on the whole loop.
• A side — the stretch between two corners — has its own small handle and its own width, and follows its corners until you give it one.
• J merges corners into one, and corners can be split back apart, so you say which vertices are one corner and which are along for the ride. Merging and splitting move nothing by themselves.
• Copy one corner's settings and paste them onto another, choosing what to carry across.
• Auto Merge, Keep Shape and Classic modes, Even offset and Clamp Overlap, each a single key.
• [ and ] set how sharply a vertex has to turn to count as a corner, so the same loop can read as few corners or many.
• The offset is worked out in world space, so on an object scaled in Object Mode the width is the width you see on screen and a round corner stays round on screen.
• Nothing is committed until you confirm, and Esc puts the mesh back exactly as it was.

Pure Blender, and nothing to configure. No game engine, no external tool, and no network use of any kind: it opens no sockets, sends no telemetry and checks no licence. Blender's own Bevel is untouched and still on Ctrl + B.

Advanced Bevel

Every release, newest first

Every release of the add-on, newest first. One package covers Blender 3.3 – 5.2: a modern extension on 4.2+, a classic add-on on 3.3 – 4.1.

1.0.1 — 21 September 2026

Fixed

The corner handles are visible again on the Vulkan backend. On Blender set to Vulkan (Preferences ▸ System ▸ Backend), the coloured dots marking each corner did not appear, while OpenGL showed them normally. The tool itself worked throughout — only the dots were missing, so an edit could be made but not aimed.

The handles are drawn as GPU points, and the Vulkan backend ignores the requested point size for the shader the add-on used, which left every handle one pixel wide. They are now drawn with Blender's dedicated point shader, which honours the size on both backends. Nothing changes if you use OpenGL: the handles are drawn exactly as before.

Reported by a customer, and confirmed by measuring what actually reaches the screen on Blender 5.2 under both backends.

1.0.0 — First release

A bevel whose rounded corners hold their shape as the width grows.

What it does

• Built on Blender's own bevel topology: the result starts where Blender would put it, and then every corner becomes a handle you can edit before you confirm.
• Per-corner control: width, spread, vertex count, profile shape and segments, each on the corner you pick rather than on the whole loop.
• A side — the stretch between two corners — has its own small handle and its own width, and follows its corners until you give it one.
• J merges corners into one, and corners can be split back apart, so you say which vertices are one corner and which are along for the ride. Merging and splitting move nothing by themselves.
• Copy one corner's settings and paste them onto another, choosing what to carry across.
• Auto Merge, Keep Shape and Classic modes, Even offset and Clamp Overlap, each a single key.
• [ and ] set how sharply a vertex has to turn to count as a corner, so the same loop can read as few corners or many.
• The offset is worked out in world space, so on an object scaled in Object Mode the width is the width you see on screen and a round corner stays round on screen.
• Nothing is committed until you confirm, and Esc puts the mesh back exactly as it was.

Pure Blender, and nothing to configure. No game engine, no external tool, and no network use of any kind: it opens no sockets, sends no telemetry and checks no licence. Blender's own Bevel is untouched and still on Ctrl + B.