CHAMFER (Command)

Bevels the edges of objects.

Access Methods

Button

 Toolbar: Drafting tool set Modify tool group Chamfer
 Menu:  Modify Chamfer

Summary

The distances and angles that you specify are applied in the order that you select the objects.

You can chamfer lines, polylines, rays, and xlines.

List of Prompts

The following prompts are displayed.

(TRIM mode) Current chamfer Dist1 = current, Dist2 = current

Select first line or [Undo/Polyline/Distance/Angle/Trim/mEthod/Multiple]: Use an object selection method or enter an option

First Line

Specifies the first of two edges required to define a 2D chamfer.

If you select lines or polylines, their lengths adjust to accommodate the chamfer line. You can hold down Shift while selecting the objects to override the current chamfer distances with a value of 0.

If the selected objects are line segments of a 2D polyline, they must be adjacent or separated by no more than one segment. If they're separated by another polyline segment, CHAMFER deletes the segment that separates them and replaces it with the chamfer.

Undo

Reverses the previous action in the command.

Polyline

Chamfers an entire 2D polyline.

The intersecting polyline segments are chamfered at each vertex of the polyline. Chamfers become new segments of the polyline.

If the polyline includes segments that are too short to accommodate the chamfer distance, those segments are not chamfered.

Distance

Sets the distance of the chamfer from the endpoint of the selected edge.

If you set both distances to zero, CHAMFER extends or trims the two lines so they end at the same point.

Angle

Sets the chamfer distances using a chamfer distance for the first line and an angle for the second line.

Trim

Controls whether CHAMFER trims the selected edges to the chamfer line endpoints.

Note: Trim sets the TRIMMODE system variable to 1; No Trim sets TRIMMODE to 0.

If the TRIMMODE system variable is set to 1, CHAMFER trims the intersecting lines to the endpoints of the chamfer line. If the selected lines do not intersect, CHAMFER extends or trims them so that they do. If TRIMMODE is set to 0, the chamfer is created without trimming the selected lines.

Method

Controls whether CHAMFER uses two distances or a distance and an angle to create the chamfer.

Multiple

Chamfers the edges of more than one set of objects.