Chamfer is too smart for it's own good?

[engineeringNCMXB]

I am trying to add a chamfer but F360 is trying to be too smart - presumably trying to avoid collisions. While I can appreciate that, right now I just want the software to follow a path and stop being smart. I know exactly what I want.....just follow a profile with a chamfer tool. 

How can I best tell F360 to use a sketched profile to drive a 2D chamfer and ignore everything that may cause it to avoid and area?

[engineeringNCMXB]

The chain is verified to be closed....

The tip of the tool does not hit the model.

[LibertyMachine · Accepted solution]

Ditch the "Chamfer" operation and use 2D Contour. When a chamfer type tool is selected, it pops open a new column in the Passes tab to allow you to define chamfer sizes

[engineeringNCMXB]

Excellent! That seems to have nailed it. Easy. 

So, now I wonder what the 2D Chamfer option is useful for. 

[Anonymous]

I have used it a couple times for cleaning up the edge's on some clamps I was making. The cool part was telling my supervisor there is a tool path that will do that in fusion and seeing the puzzled look on his face when he use to do a bunch of depth and offset calculating by hand. I'd be curious to know if one could incorporate a round over style bit into the mix and If it could still calculate offsets to avoid crashing.

[LibertyMachine]

2D Chamfer does have it's uses, and it's limitations. Truthfully, I just almost always use 2D Contour, as it affords me more control and it's not plagues with issues such as tolerance and false collisions. That said, if it's a quick op I'm programming, I'll grab 2D Chamfer