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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design

You're reading from   Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design Take your AuotoCAD design skills to the next dimension by creating powerful 3D models.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849699358
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Autodesk AutoCAD 2013 Practical 3D Drafting and Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to 3D Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Visualizing 3D Models 3. Coordinate Systems 4. Creating Solids and Surfaces from 2D 5. 3D Primitives and Conversions 6. Editing in 3D 7. Editing Solids and Surfaces 8. Inquiring the 3D model 9. Documenting a 3D Model 10. Rendering and Illumination 11. Materials and Effects 12. Meshes and Surfaces Final Considerations Index

Filleting and chamfering


Two frequent operations when modeling in 3D are rounding and chamfering edges.

Applying fillets

To round or to fillet edges, we have two commands. The first one is well known from 2D.

The FILLET command

The FILLET command (alias F), besides filleting two linear objects in 2D, allows you to fillet or round edges of solids and surfaces. When we select a solid or surface edge, the command changes the usual prompts and adapts to fillet in 3D. The command starts by displaying the information about the current settings, only important for 2D, and prompts for the selection of the first object:

Command: FILLET
Current settings: Mode = TRIM, Radius = 0.0000
Select first object or [Undo/Polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple]: Edge selection

When we select a solid or surface edge, the command doesn't prompt for the second object, instead it prompts for the radius:

Enter fillet radius or [Expression]: Value

After that, we click on all edges to be filleted, one-by-one, but only from the selected...

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