Use Chamfer for non-radial corners

[Scott D Davis]

Here's a tip I picked up a while back.....for the longest time, I used FILLET to trim lines to a corner. then I'd need to FILLET to a radius, and I'd change the radius from 0" to lets say 10'-0", then fillet two lines to a radius....then I'd need a corner, and have to set it back to 0. What a pain!

So here's the tip: Use FILLET set to a radius to do radial corners, and use the CHAMFER command, set both distances to 0, to draw 'clean' corners. (Until I learned this, I NEVER used Chamfer! Have you?) Now you don't have to change your FILLET radius unless you need another size radius!

Take this one step further with key-ins....set FILLET to F, and set CHAMFER to FF, now, the same key does radius corners and clean corners!

[robert.1.hall72202]

Thats a good tip, and to think I have a macro set to do a fillet of zero!

[scwegner]

...unless you actually use CHAMFER. If that's the case you can set up a little LISP like this:


(defun c:fz (/ oldecho oldrad)

(command "._undo" "end" "._undo" "begin")

(setq oldrad (getvar "filletrad"))
(setvar "filletrad" 0.0)
(command "._fillet" )
(while
(= (logand (getvar "cmdactive") 1) 1)
(command pause)
);while

(setvar "filletrad" oldrad)
(command "._undo" "end")

(princ)
)

[keelay711]

Saw this while cruising through the old posts *sheepish grin*

Another option for this is to use <shift> as you select the 2 lines to fillet or chamfer. The shift will override any radius/distance with 0. This way, you don't have to manually reset your numbers at all.

[ronie_ernanto]

Saw this while cruising through the old posts *sheepish grin*

Another option for this is to use <shift> as you select the 2 lines to fillet or chamfer. The shift will override any radius/distance with 0. This way, you don't have to manually reset your numbers at all.


whoo hoo...that's a good one...

[.chad]

Saw this while cruising through the old posts *sheepish grin*

Another option for this is to use <shift> as you select the 2 lines to fillet or chamfer. The shift will override any radius/distance with 0. This way, you don't have to manually reset your numbers at all.i use that one a lot - so much that even if my radius is set to zero i still hit shift :Oops: :Oops: