Weird, smooth edges

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I’m not really all that experienced at 3D modeling, and usually only use it for low poly stuff, but recently I noticed that Meta Ellipsoids and Meta Cubes and the like all have smooth-looking edges. Upon converting them to Meshes and editing them in edit mode they look like any other mesh, but they still have smooth edges that I can’t seem to replicate any other way.

This is what I’m talking about:
http://www.psychoholiday.com/uploaded/smoothedgesmet.gif

They both have the same vertices but one has smooth edges, and I can’t figure out why.

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Meh. I need to read first.

Click ‘Set Smooth’ option under the Editing buttons.

For example here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/RAYClovis/Junk/SmoothCubes.jpg

The two left cubes are subdivided and bevelled, one of them with ‘Set Smooth’

The right cubes are metacubes converted to mesh, with the rightmost one using ‘Set Solid’.

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F9, Links and Materials tab, just toggle between ‘Set Solid’ and ‘Set Smooth’ after converting.

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