Help using 2D tools
-
I have not been able to make a fillet on any of the lines I have been drawing. I know I must be doing something wrong because the fillet tool extends or trims the lines fine when I select the fillet tool.
What I do is create two lines using the 2D line tool with one line being perpendicular to the other. I then select the fillet tool and set the radius to a non-zero value that falls between the dimensions of the lines. When I click on line 1 the line highlights to blue, the radius goes to zero, and I change it back to the value I need and the prompt says to select line 2. When I do that the fillet does not happen and the radius always goes to zero. Is it not possible to enter a radius value in inches or mm and I must use a value like 100? When I select line 1 the guide point for the arc/fillet does not show up either like the documentation says it should. It also does not chamfer the lines if I try that too. This is the only one of the 2D tools I cannot get to work and I would really like to have this be functional so I can CAD in Sketchup. TIG??????
Ji
-
@james_hol said:
I have not been able to make a fillet on any of the lines I have been drawing. I know I must be doing something wrong because the fillet tool extends or trims the lines fine when I select the fillet tool.
What I do is create two lines using the 2D line tool with one line being perpendicular to the other. I then select the fillet tool and set the radius to a non-zero value that falls between the dimensions of the lines. When I click on line 1 the line highlights to blue, the radius goes to zero, and I change it back to the value I need and the prompt says to select line 2. When I do that the fillet does not happen and the radius always goes to zero. Is it not possible to enter a radius value in inches or mm and I must use a value like 100? When I select line 1 the guide point for the arc/fillet does not show up either like the documentation says it should. It also does not chamfer the lines if I try that too. This is the only one of the 2D tools I cannot get to work and I would really like to have this be functional so I can CAD in Sketchup. TIG??????
JiThe default Radius for a Fillet is 0.0, with that it Trims/Extends the two Edges you pick with NO Fillet added: if you type a number (or even a number with acceptable units like 50mm etc) into the VCB and then press the <enter-key> that will be the Fillet Radius for all future Fillets until you change it again. It will only add a center-point IF the Fillet has a Radius.
The Chamfer is entered as a number [or a pair of numbers] e.g. 100 [or 100:200 for an uneven chamfer to Edge1/Edge2...], you press the <enter-key> for it to be read [units also work, like 50mm]... -
Thank you so very much TIG.
I tried it the way you explained here and............now it works!!!!!!!!!
I don't know why it didn't before but now all is good.
Jim
Advertisement