About Chamfers

There are a few things that you need to know about chamfers. You obtain a chamfer by propagation along one or several edges.

This page discusses:

See Also
Creating Chamfers

Extremities

Four extremities types are available:

  • Smooth: a tangency constraint is imposed at the connection between the chamfer and the support surface, thus smoothing the connection.
  • Straight: no tangency constraint is imposed at the connecting point between the chamfer and the initial support, generating sometimes a sharp angle.
  • Maximum: the chamfer is limited by the longest selected edge.
  • Minimum: the chamfer is limited by the shortest selected edge.

Propagation

Two propagation modes are available:

  • Minimal: Edges tangent to selected edges can be taken into account to some extent. The app continues chamfering beyond the selected edge whenever it cannot do otherwise. Here, the chamfer is computed on the selected edge and on a portion of tangent edges:

  • Tangency: Chamfers the entire selected edge as well as its tangent edges. It continues chamfering beyond the selected edge until it encounters an edge that is non-continuous in tangency as shown below: