Chamfering solid edges

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.

2.Click Preferences to open the Chamfer Edge Preferences dialog box and specify the tool’s default parameters. The parameters can be edited later from the Object Info palette.

Parameter	Description
Setback	Specify the distance by which the faces are set back. Alternatively, enter a value in the Setback field on the Tool bar.
Select Tangent Entities	Choose this option to select tangentially connected edges and faces for chamfering
Select Faces	Choose this option to select faces for chamfering
Select All Edges	Selects all the edges of the solid for the chamfer operation

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).

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 Modifying a fillet, chamfer, or shell object).

● 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)