If Blender shade smooth looks bad, we can try to use Auto Smooth and adjust shade smooth by angle. In this tutorial, we can make an object shade smooth by using shortcut Right Click. If we want to remove shade smooth, we can use shade flat. Furthermore, if we want to add shade smooth with keeping shape edges, we can use Auto Smooth, and then we can adjust Smooth by angle, this is new feature in Blender 4.1. All these steps are easy to follow for Blender beginners, happy sharing and I hope this helps. More Blender Tutorial are available here.
Blender Shade Smooth with sharp edges
We can follow these steps to do shade smooth with sharp edges on 3D object in Blender.
1. In object Mode, select an object
2. Right click and choose Auto Smooth
3. Open bottom left panel, we can adjust Smooth by Angle
Alternative, we can follow all these steps to shade smooth with sharp edges visually, watch here,
Timestamp 0:00 Intro – Blender Shade Smooth with sharp edges 0:24 Blender Shade Smooth Weird 0:32 Remove Shade Smooth 0:46 Shade Auto Smooth 0:56 Adjust Smooth by Angle