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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

Fillet
To produce fillets or chamfers of an
The Fillet mode allows you to add a exact radius, use the Fillet Lines or
fillet, or curve, at any corner of an Chamfer Lines edit button. See “Fillet Lines”
object. Dragging a corner edit handle adjusts on page 261 and “Chamfer Lines” on page
the fillet radius at that corner. When this 262.
mode is active, the Fillet icon displays
near the mouse pointer. Connect CAD Segments
• D r a w i n g - Standard click and drag Typically, when two CAD objects
drawing behavior is enabled. share the same properties, they can be
snapped end-to-end to form a polyline.
• Resize/Reshape - Fillet allows you to Connect CAD Segments controls whether
create a fillet at by dragging a corner edit CAD objects can be snapped together to
handle inward.
form polylines. See “Polylines” on page 312.
When Connect CAD Segments i s
diabled, the Connect CAD Segments icon
displays near the mouse pointer and CAD
objects cannot form polylines.
Select Edit> Edit Behaviors> Connect
CAD Segments to toggle this behavior
on or off. You can also turn Connect CAD

Fillet edit behavior Segments on or off in the Preferences
dialog. See “CAD Panel” on page 122.
• Movement - Move mode allows you to
move objects at Allowed Angles. Rotate/Resize About
• Rotation - In Move mode, objects snap Current Point
at Allowed Angles as they are rotated.
Objects can be rotated or resized
The Fillet edit behavior adjusts all the about either their own centers or the
corners of a box at once. The radius of each current CAD point. See “The Current Point”
corner is the same. on page 294.

Fillet does not have an effect on circles,
ovals, ellipses or arc segments.

You can temporarily enable the Fillet
edit mode when another mode is active by
pressing F while performing an edit or
drawing operation.

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