About Chamfers

You can create a chamfer between two lines trimming either all, the first or none of the elements.

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Creating Chamfers

The Chamfer Command

You can create chamfers between any type of curves (lines, splines, arcs etc.). Even if the curves are not consecutive, the chamfer is created.

After clicking Chamfer , the possible chamfer options appear in Tools Palette. The Trim All Elements option is selected by default.

After selecting the whole geometry requested, additional options are displayed in Tools Palette.

Trimming Options

Six trimming options are available:

  • Trim All Elements:
  • Trim The First Element:
  • No Trim:
  • Standard Lines Trim:
  • Construction Lines Trim:
  • Construction Lines No Trim:

Dimension Options

Three dimension options are available:

  • Hypotenuse and Angle:
  • First and Second Length:
  • First Length and Angle:

Chamfer Definition

Chamfer can be defined by defining Length/Angle, Length1/Angle, Length1/Length2.

Chamfer definitions:

  • Length/Angle (Hypotenuse)



  • Length1/Angle



  • Length1/Length2



Dimensioning the Edge Intersection Point

You can create several chamfers just by multi-selecting for example, the rectangle endpoints and entering the definition parameters to define these chamfers (in Tools Palette). Four chamfers are created at the same time with the same parameter values.

Using the Length1/Length2 Option



Between Perpendicular Lines:



Between Non-Perpendicular Lines:



Between Crossing Lines:



Between Non-Intersecting Lines:



Note: If the lines are parallels, the extremity points are used to compute the lengths because the virtual intersecting point does not exist.

Between Intersecting Curves:



Between Non-Intersecting Curves:



Using the Length1/Angle Option



Between Non-Perpendicular Lines:



Between Non-Intersecting Curves: