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254 CHAPTER 7 Modeling with PriMary Features

Figure 7.43
working with
chamfer features

Creating Asymmetrical Chamfers
When you create chamfers at angles other than 45 degrees, you can use the Flip Direction option
to control the feature. It is important to note the difference between having direct control (angle
the chamfer from this face) and indirect control (angle the chamfer from the other face). Indirect
control is essentially trial and error. If you don’t like what you are given automatically, you can
try the other option.
The Flip Direction option flips the direction of all the chamfers being created by a particular
feature. This is obviously important only when you have chamfers made at an angle that is not
45 degrees, or unequal distances in the case of a distance-distance chamfer. So in some situations,
where the default directions of more than a single edge are going in opposite directions, your
only recourse is to create multiple Chamfer features and control them independently.
One of the most interesting functions of the Chamfer tool is the vertex chamfer, shown in
Figure 7.44. You can chamfer a corner with equal distances or distances along each edge. This
feature can be used only at corners where three edges come together—standard block corners.

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