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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

- [Instructor] SolidWorks gives us a couple of very simple to use tools for creating sketch fillets as well as sketch chamfers. To get started, let's go up here to this icon here, click on the drop down. Then you can see here I've got a sketch fillet as well as a sketch chamfer. Let's go ahead and start with that sketch fillet. As far as the radius, I'm going to type in .25 for a quarter inch fillet. Then as far as the entities to fillet, I have two options here. One is I can just choose the corner and it'll automatically add that fillet for me, or I can choose the two lines that are involved, and it's going to automatically add that fillet for me as well. When you're happy, go ahead and click on the green check mark, and there's my fillets. Now you can easily modify this if you'd like to by double-clicking on it and typing in a new radius. Let's try that one more time. Type it in again here at .75 and you can see those radiuses did change, and both of them did change because you do…

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