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Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches

Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Adding fillets and chamfers to sketches

- If you would like to add smooth corners or chamfers to your sketches, we've got a couple tools inside of the sketch toolbar that's going to allow us to do that. If you come up here to this icon here, which is the sketch fillet, go ahead and click on that one. Then, choose the radius of the fillet. I'm going to type in .25. Then, choose my entities. Now, I can choose two lines here or a corner. So, I'm going to choose this line here and that line there. You can see it automatically adds a fillet there. Or I can just choose a point. When you're happy with what it looks like, click on OK. It just automatically adds those fillets in, as well as adding a dimension for you. If you then do that again, maybe change the fillet size to a .5, I can select the entire box and it's going to fillet out all of those edges. Click OK and that quickly I am able to add fillets to all of the corners. Now, if I go back and draw maybe a rectangle, or a couple of rectangles here, I can jump over to the…

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