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Creating fillets

Creating fillets - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating fillets

Let's face it the easiest way to clean up intersecting geometry is by creating a sharp corner. Unfortunately, sharp corners aren't always the best solution for a design. In this lesson we're going to explore the Fill It command. Fill It allows us to create rounded corners. On my screen I have some abstract geometry. We're going to use these lines to explore the workflow behind Fill It. Now, Fill It is a Modification tool, so we can find it right here in the Modify panel of the ribbon. After launching the command, AutoCAD essentially just wants us to click the two objects. I'm going to select my first object and the second one, and AutoCAD creates the rounded corner. I know what you're thinking, that corner doesn't look very round. That's because we neglected to do one thing. We didn't set a radius for the Fill It. You see, the default radius is zero. So in that respect, Fill It can also be used to create sharp corners. I'm going to launch the fill it command again. This time, I'll…

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