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Selecting Multiple Edges on Two Distance Chamfer

Luke_Daley — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:13:43 GMT

Good Afternoon All

I'm a relatively new user coming from Solidworks Making my way in Inventor, I've hit a snag that seemingly I expect to be a very simple operation but I cant figure out how to execute, Perhaps someone can assist.

I have Multiple Rectangular holes within an Extrusion and I need to apply a Two distance Chamfer to the edges I can Create the feature with single Distance Chamfer and even Angle Chamfer, but the feature seems to fall flat when I select Distance Chamfer (and only allows me to select a single edge)

I'm confident I'm missing something very simple here because it doesn't make sense that one modifier would not be permitted to select multiple edges. (or perhaps I've stumbled on a bug?)

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Re: Selecting Multiple Edges on Two Distance Chamfer

mcgyvr — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:42:01 GMT

Its just how that one works (for some silly reason)..

You can select multiple edges (or a loop really) when they are tangentially connected.. (like with a slot)

But rectangles must be done one edge at a time..

I have NO idea why that "limitation" exists..

Re: Selecting Multiple Edges on Two Distance Chamfer

Luke_Daley — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:51:08 GMT

well that was unexpected I was sure it must have been my error .. this does seem like a very odd limitation.

Re: Selecting Multiple Edges on Two Distance Chamfer

mcgyvr — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:59:53 GMT

Please show your support for adding the ability to select multiple edges with distance-distance chamfers by giving kudos to this ideastation post..

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/distance-distance-chamfer-select-multiple-edges/idi-p/6856773

Re: Selecting Multiple Edges on Two Distance Chamfer

Luke_Daley — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:00:59 GMT

haha I was just working out how to Submit an Idea! Voted!

Re: Selecting Multiple Edges on Two Distance Chamfer

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:31:28 GMT

This is not a solution to your exact problem, but it is a work around.

Instead of a two distance chamfer, in some situations, a distance-angle chamfer can be used. Do a little trig and voila! The desired result can be achieved, and distance-angle allows selection of multiple edges.