- [Instructor] Adding radius, fillet, or chamfer dimensions
in SolidWorks is pretty straightforward
thanks to the tools we have.
When you want to add a radius, diameter, or fillet dimension,
you're going to use the Smart Dimension feature.
Just click on Smart Dimension, find your radius,
click on it once, drag the dimension out,
click again to lock in the place
and then I like to hit escape to back out of it.
If you want to change this to a diameter dimension
you can just right click on it, go to Display Options
and save Display as Diameter.
The same is true for any holes,
so if we go over here, we have some threaded holes.
Now we can either use the Smart Dimension feature
to call out the thread or we can change that to a basic hole
and just call out the diameter.
If you want to call out the chamfer, there is
actually a specific chamfer dimension tool.
If you go up to the Smart Dimension drop-down,
you'll see the chamfer dimension right here.
You can also go to tools, dimensions, chamfer.
If I click on that, you basically just want to
choose the two edges that describe the chamfer.
So if this is my chamfered edge,
I'm going to click on this first and then either the top edge
or the edge that's falling down vertically,
one of the two that are adjacent to it.
So I click on the second edge, and now it knows
what the baseline reference is for the angle,
it also knows the length of the edge that I selected first
and it gives me that dimension here.
I can click to insert that, so pretty simple.
So again I'm going to hit escape.
I'm going to click on this dimension, hit delete to delete it.
One more time, I'm going to go to the drop-down,
chamfer dimension, choose this edge first,
then I'm going to choose this top edge to describe the angle
and then I can drag this out.