The Chamfer Edge tool modifies the edge of a solid with a linear cross section. Edges are usually modified during the detailed design phase of a project to provide a more realistic or aesthetic appearance to a model.
To chamfer the edges of a solid:
1. Click the Chamfer Edge tool from the 3D Modeling tool set, and then select Preferences on the Tool bar.
The Chamfer Edge Preferences dialog box opens.
Click to show/hide the parameters.
2. Enter your chamfer preferences, and click OK.
3. For tangent entity selections, select the tangentially connected edges and faces to be modified. For face selections, select the faces to be modified. To select multiple edges or surfaces, hold the Shift key while selecting. To select the back faces of solids, press the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac).
See Selecting the Edges and Faces of a Solid for information on selecting surfaces.
When Select All Edges is enabled, clicking on one of the highlighted edges selects all the edges for chamfering.
4. Press Enter or click the check mark button on the Tool bar to perform the edge modification.
The Setback value for the chamfered edge can be edited through the Object Info palette.
Once the modification is complete, the edge set used to create the modification cannot be changed. The modified edge can be ungrouped, and a new modification with different edges can be created.
If one modification has been created over another, the first modification cannot be edited in the Object Info palette unless the last one is ungrouped (see Editing a Fillet/Chamfer or Shell Object).
A chamfer edge operation may fail due to any of the following:
● Complex surface geometry adjacent to an edge or corner involved in the modification
● An attempt to modify one edge in a sequence of tangential edges (select all the edges for a better chance of success)
● An attempt to modify without selecting all the edges at a vertex
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