Understanding fillets and chamfers

Fillets and chamfers are modifications that are made to the edges and vertices of our models. They help remove sharp edges and turn them into softer ones in order to provide a safer product or a better user experience. They are similar to fillets and chamfers in sketching. The following image illustrates the effect of the Fillet feature:

The following image illustrates the effect of the Chamfer feature:

Note that fillets and chamfers can only be applied to existing features. In the preceding images, we explored ...

Get Learn SOLIDWORKS 2020 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.