Inset
Shrinks a face inward and bridges the gap, optionally pushing it in or out.
panel, border, recess, socket, stub, window, frame, extrude in- Category
- Modifiers
- Outputs
- mesh
- Runs live in
- no target yet
The panel-maker. Inset a face and you have a border around it; add depth and you have a recessed panel or a raised boss. Windows, doors, hatches, plaques, buttons.
It chains, because the face keeps its number: inset the same face again and the stub grows further. Faces Move decides what happens when the selection covers several faces, either each getting its own border, or the connected ones being treated as a single region with one border around the outside.
Inputs
| Socket | Type | Wiring |
|---|---|---|
| mesh | geometry | |
| selection | field, optional | |
| axis | vector | one wire covers axisX, axisY, axisZ |
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Available when | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thickness | number | 0.25 | always | |
| Depth | number | 0 | always | |
| Depth Direction | normal | axis | normal | always | |
| Axis X | number | 0 | Depth Direction is axis | |
| Axis Y | number | 1 | Depth Direction is axis | |
| Axis Z | number | 0 | Depth Direction is axis | |
| Faces Move | individual | region | individual | always | |
| Double Sided | checkbox | off | always |
3 of these 8 parameters only apply in some settings. The Available when column says which.
Built with this node
- My selection does nothingFix
- Select parts of a meshHow-to
- Pushing faces out, as a region or one at a timeHow-to
- What counts as one faceHow-to
- Panel Only the Faces You Pickedteaches this
- A Selection Can Be a Strengthuses it
See also
- newFacesTo select what the inset just created, for a second pass.
- extrudeTilesWhen every face should lift rather than a chosen few.