Inventor 2017: How can I to chamfer whole parameter of a part with a radius?

[SHamrick]

This part I am creating is off of a cardboard scanned pattern I pulled in as a DXF. This is something I have to do often 

I need to add a 30° chamfer all the around this part. The black sketch is the depth of the chamfer at 30°. I added the chamfer on the flat in the IPT file to show as reference! 

This is a part that will be cut out of plywood on a CNC router and will use the router to cut the 30° angle. 

Please advise and thank-you in advance! 

[mwighton]

Please always state which version of Inventor you are using.

[mdavis22569]

Did you try the Chamfer w/ Distance and Angle?

I don't have 2017 on my work machine ..but something like 

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As for a radius ...do you want to Fillet it then?  Trying to understand what you want 100%

[SHamrick]

Thanks, I updated my post! Inventor 2017

[mdavis22569]

2nd option:

Sweep the desired shape/form you want removed ... 

[SHamrick]

Yes, and get this! When I get to the radius portion:

To answer your questions: As for a radius ...do you want to Fillet it then?  No just a 30° chamfer. 

[mwighton]

if you make the path a smooth line the sweep will move around the curved edge.

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Please advise and thank-you in advance! 

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Did you use the Auto-dimension tool?  Sketch1 is a disaster - I advise that you forget that you ever saw that tool.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Have you tried applying a face draft to the faces you which to chamfer?

[SHamrick]

Yes, I used it! The outside profile comes from scanned in pattern and I generate a DXF file from the scanner. I just use arcs to clean it up. It is a plywood piece that gets covered in padding and fabric.  I will plot the profile to verify that its within "tolerance" of the scanned pattern if need be. We gotta bout a 1/16" 

That is why I use the Auto Dimension constraint to do a quick and dirty fully constraint part. 

[SHamrick]

Yes, I used it! The outside profile comes from scanned in pattern and I generate a DXF file from the scanner. I just use arcs to clean it up. It is a plywood piece that gets covered in padding and fabric.  I will plot the profile to verify that its within "tolerance" of the scanned pattern if need be. We gotta bout a 1/16" 

That is why I use the Auto Dimension constraint to do a quick and dirty fully constraint part....   

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi SHamrick,

Have a quick scan of this link and you'll see some of the issues that need to be fixed in order to get the path sketch to work:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/lofting-smooth-curves-for-guitar-body/m-p/...

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[SHamrick]

I tried this 1st but was going from the wrong face of the part, IT WORKED when I went from the bottom face!

[Anonymous]

In my opinion, you should not use the auto dimension tool as previously stated. It doesn't take too long to clean this part up. After a few minutes of work and adding tangent constraints... (Just an example, not accurate.)

[SHamrick]

Could you attach the IPT file that you cleaned the contrains up on so I could get  a better understanding of what you did?

[Anonymous]

It was a quick cleanup simply to represent the successful chamfer operation. See attached.