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Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer

Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Sketch Fillet and Sketch Chamfer

- [Instructor] In an effort to keep your Feature Tree free of clutter and reduce the number of the features that you use, sometimes it's helpful to add fillets, and chamfers inside of your SolidWorks sketches. So here, if we go up to the Command Ribbon, we find Sketch Fillet. If you click on the drop-down, you can also see Sketch Chamfer. As the icon indicates, this will give you the tool to create Sketch Fillet, or a Sketch Chamfer. Let's start with a Sketch Fillet. We'll click on this. To begin with the Sketch Filet feature, you simply click on two edges and it will create a fillet of the size that you indicate at that corner. So I'm going to click on this first edge, this second edge, you can see that it gives me the preview of the fillet, and when I click on the second edge, it creates it and changes the two line entities into one fillet. I can do this for all the corners by selecting one edge at a time, and then the preceding edge next to it. You'll notice it'll also just give me…

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