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Being able to switch distance direction in the chamfer tool..

Being able to switch distance direction in the chamfer tool..

dpar15 brought this to my attention, you can't switch the direction in the chamfer tool when using the distance and angle. I'm sure a lot of people need this. I know I am one of them. I know there are work arounds but it wastes time.

77 Comments
Anonymous
Not applicable

I currently use following work around:
angle: 90-'actual angle'

dim: tan('actual angle')*'actual dim'

 

Problem is, you can only do one edge at a time, because 2 edges might only have one flipped chamfer...

Anonymous
Not applicable

This is also driving me crazy! People have been posting about this for years. How does this feature not exist?

susibiker
Enthusiast

"This is also driving me crazy! People have been posting about this for years. How does this feature not exist?"

 

I have tried to be charitable about the reasons, but it is getting harder and harder to do so.

  • I suspect they are focussed on adding more "Wowee!" and "Ooh! Ahh!" features for Big Business than fixing something so basic - that *EVERYONE* actually NEEDS!!
  • Either that, or some pillock hard-coded the function in so deep that it is taking a major rewrite of that section of code to fix it.

Oh wait, it is still - "FUTURE CONSIDERATION" - over 2 YEARS later?!

What. The. ???? !!!

jartza
Participant

Yep... still waiting

 

lucasproko
Alumni

Hey all - this is Lucas from the Product Management Team. Recently we spent some time going through the Idea Station and the product itself to highlight features in Fusion that could use some additional enhancements. As a result of that exercise we earmarked several issues, including this one, to begin work on in the not-so-distant future. I'll hold off on "Accepting" this Idea until we actually begin that work, but I appreciate you all for the comments and votes on this topic. They were useful as we were weighing the potential improvements against each other.

 

Lucas

jartza
Participant

@lucasproko

 

Thanks for the information, this is good news! No more calculating degrees by hand to two measures 🙂

 

//Jartza

susibiker
Enthusiast

This is encouraging.

Thank you so much for letting us know - the pain this causes me on a daily basis is Huge.

To finally have this fixed once and for all would make a lot of people happy - and not only those with a voice on here.

Thank you.

Susi x

Anonymous
Not applicable

In the mean time, you can let Fusion do the calculation using tangens  and "90-angle".

Hope this lessens the pain for the time being.

 

length 2 = length 1 x tan( angle1 )
angle 2 = 90 - angle


Collin_Korver
Advocate

how hasnt this been added yet

susibiker
Enthusiast

@Collin_Korver  "how hasnt this been added yet"

 

I have no idea either - This is one of the dumbest capability omissions there is! 

 

When I just got notified of a reply on this thread, I thought they'd fixed it!

Nope. Woman Sad

DWhiteley
Advisor
It’s not generative design, so they’re not bothered!
Tomblarom
Contributor

I made some screenshots of the workaround:

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Anonymous
Not applicable

I am honestly baffled that this has still not been addressed. I am trying to convert people to this software, and small things like this are not making it easy to convince people.

Collin_Korver
Advocate
Ha! Exactly what I ran into.
Anonymous
Not applicable

I just started with Fusion 360, and I'm disappointed that I ran into this issue so quickly. It seems like this should be an obvious requirement for the chamfer tool.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Just gonna throw another "how is this not a feature" in the pile. Started learning CAD with Fusion recently and couldn't figure out what I was missing... turns out I didn't miss anything, Fusion is just missing it for some absolutely baffling reason.

susibiker
Enthusiast

A basic feature that was requested a mere 2.5 YEARS AGO!!

I adore Fusion 360, but this is just crazy... Smiley Frustrated

Anonymous
Not applicable

January 2019 and still waiting...

Anonymous
Not applicable

I thought I was going crazy.. There really isn't a way to control this still?

jonathon.higgins
Explorer

omg this is so painful ;w;

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