Ball with Extrude tool

[csehz]

Hi, I would like to ask that is there maybe some best practice to extrude a ball? I assume from a circle for example?

Basically I have seen the method that drawing a circle, putting on it with Fill tool circular fill, after a shadow, that gives a kind of nice ball.

But could the Xara Designer do similiar with simply the 3D Extrude tool?

thanks,

[Antspants]

The 3d extrude will turn the 'circle' to a cylindrical shape. You could experiment with keeping the 3d extrusion flat and messing with the lighting to get effect but I doubt you can improve on the 'known' very simple way of doing this using a circle fill overlayed with a copy that has an elliptical transparrency.

This is only based on my own experiences, see if anyone else has something to add.

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello

Not sure what kind of sphere you want to make.

Here is one made in Xara, though it does not use the Extrude Tool. The advantage to this method is that it is textured...



Peace

James

[ShapeShifter]

The extrude tool is not the best choice for 'balls' (aka: sphere)

You can get close when you manually enter the extrude bevel size as shown. But that's as close as I can get using just an extruded shape.

[csehz]

Thanks very much the answers, so basically it is better to try to create sphere on other way and not with extrude tool.

Sorry for my english yes meant rather sphere than ball, but you understood the point absolutely :-)

thanks,

[slavelle]

Hey there ODdOnLifeItself: Can you detail how you made that sphere?