Sounds like Xara's Extrude tool.
Yes that's nice but its not vector it's a bitmap. Now I don't use the 3D mapping in Illy very much but it's so easy to use. You can draw a single lline profile and then revolve that line so it becomes 3D. If you not happy with the shading that's no problem just remove clipping mask, ungroup and you pick the surface you want to recolour. The best bit is that I can map onto any surface of the area, let's say a label, which is all vector or logo and this revolves around your extrusion and your label stays in proportion and in perspective. One of the best drawing improvements in Illy for ages. It used to be quite slow when redrawing, moving or revolving but with the use of the Graphics card memory (mercury).
It would be handy in Xara and another tool in the vector tool set which is light at the moment. 1+ here.
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It would be really handy in Xara Albacore. This is as near a similar image I can get using Xara's spiral then extrude then adding shapes on top.
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Well, this is kind of a sloppy and casual attempt at it, but given the motivation and the time, I could probably get closer to the original posted. All done in Xara 11.
Others here are much more adept at using the extrusion tool, but you can take this, remove the 3D extrusion and edit it, then when done editing it you can reapply the extrusion.
So, in that sense it is vector editable.
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Gosh Ron that's a well rendered drawing, really zing's. How long did it take in Ver. 11 cos in AI I think to get all the bevels and the light reflections that would take me around 2 hours. It's not the revolve that would take time its what happens after taking apart the bevel then the top faces.
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