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Editing corners with Fillet and Chamfer

Editing corners with Fillet and Chamfer - Rhino Tutorial

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Editing corners with Fillet and Chamfer

In this video, we'll explore Fillets and chamfers and how they can be used on literally every type of entity. From curves to surfaces to solids. If you're not familiar with the differences between a fillet and chamfer, a fillet is a rounded corner, and a chamfer is an angled corner. I got a couple tips here,I want to just review these very briefly. I came up with this word called Pre-filletize. And that just means we're going to create fillets on the curves first, and then generate a surface from them. Saves us a little bit of time and trouble, and also makes it cleaner. And second is what I call The Law of Fillets. So this is on a solid or polysurface. We're just going to be putting bigger fillets first, and the smaller ones can go over those. We'll see examples of both of these. Let's take a look at the final goal. We can see examples of a, a larger fillet here, and then a smaller chamfer just flying right by. Same thing with this vertical element. There's a larger fillet here, and…

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