- [Instructor] SolidWorks provides us some handy tools
for adding fillets as well as chamfers to our sketches.
Now, my basic design philosophy
is to make my sketches as simple as possible,
so I can add fillets and chamfers only on the part level,
not in the sketch level if at all possible.
That's generally a good way to design.
However, there are specific times
you might need to add a chamfer or a fillet in the sketch,
and let's go ahead and show ya how to do that.
So right up here,
under the Sketch toolbar is Sketch Fillet,
and directly below that is Sketch Chamfer.
Let's go ahead and start with Sketch Fillet.
Down here, let's go ahead
and type in a Sketch Fillet radius.
And then choose our Entities to Fillet.
I'm going to go ahead, choose this line here,
and then that's going to fill it from that line
to the next line then I select, click there,
or the other way you can do it is just click on
the little dot in the corner,
and it's going to automatically add those fillets.
Notice it says, "Keep constrained corners"
which is handy to have.
And you can dimension each fillet if you'd like,
but it's better to probably not do that,
if they're all going to be the same size.
Click OK. And then go ahead and get out of that tool.
So now you can see, I've got a half inch dimension here
and I happen to have this equal relationship
between those two.
So that means if I change one,
they will both automatically change.
Click on this one here and type in .75.
Notice that both of these automatically change.
Click on this one over here, type in .5
And they'll get a little bit smaller.
Back to where they were.
If you want to modify them individually though,
notice we've got this relationship called Equal
and there's a five next to it.
So that means, it's the fifth thing that's added.
If I click on that, I can hit Delete.
And now I can come over here,
and individually add a dimension.
So this one here is .75 and the lower one is .5.
So we can have individual dimensions
for each one of those fillets.
All right, moving on.
Let's go ahead and add some chamfers.
Click on the Chamfer tool right over here.
And there's a few different ways that we can add chamfers.
There is the Angle-distance,
as well as the Distance-distance method.
And we can keep them Equal,
or if you uncheck that,
you can make a different value
for the X and the Y values
or the dimension one and dimension two of that chamfer.
So let's start with the Angle-distance,
and that's going to be an angle of 45 degrees,
and then type in a value here.
So I'ma type in .5. Come up here.
Click on that corner there. Click OK.
And you can see right there,
I've got a half inch dimension here,
as well as the angle added here.
Now, if you need to modify that,
that's easy to do just by typing in like 30 degrees.
It'll automatically update the drawing,
and there you can see it.
If you want to go back and add another one,
let's go ahead and choose the Chamfer tool one more time.
And this time let's use the Distance-distance.
Let's make it not equal.
We'll make one that's one inch
and we'll make the other length .5.
Click on a corner here. There it is.
And there is my chamfer.
So pretty straightforward and simple to use,
you know depending on how you want to make that chamfer.
And you can add that chamfer
to as many points at the same time as you'd like.