Two sketch questions

Two sketch questions

Anonymous
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Two sketch questions

Anonymous
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Is there a way to smooth a spline and why is there no chamfer tool?

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TrippyLighting
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Ksplines are smooth except at their end points. Use a smooth constraint to make a smooth transition from spline end points to other lines.

 

Chamfers and radii/ fillets should be applied as solid features. Yeas, I know it's not always a good solution 😉 it's just the best advise for Fusion 360 at this point it's time.


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jeff_strater
Community Manager
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By "smooth" do you mean something like "fairing" a spline (Fairing Curves)?  This is something we've talked about adding, but never done anything with.  Regarding chamfer, it it just a case of not being a high-priority request yet.  I just checked, and there are 4 separate Idea Station requests for this (we really should combine those... @keqingsong?)

 

 

You should vote for one or all of these if this is something that is important to you.

 

If I want a chamfer in a sketch, I will usually just do it manually.  The key here is that there is no reason (other than "cleanliness") to trim the curves.  You can, but it's not necessary:

 

 

 

Jeff


Jeff Strater
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Anonymous
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Thanks for the replies, I was sure I was missing something on the chamfer issue and tried all kinds of things from space bar to shift when using the fillet tool.

 

What I was thinking about concerning the spline smoothing is Elevate curve, I would also like to ask about Curvature display, how is that used?

 

https://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs3621/NOTES/spline/Bezier/bezier-elev.html

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