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@MDesign
Sorry about the misunderstanding
I played with your file for a couple minutes and here is what I got.
In short - no problem. It worked again.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d8b7c45a9704b59402e807f1/w/e71c2beb2fa916abc086ae90/e/dd2fe1b87f038bb8bc9b71e6
It is weird how it works for some but not others.
@steve_shubin but you’ve changed my selection of a single face for the chamfer to .4 edges. the point is not to see how to work around the issue. the point of the thread is to answer that question. Why does it matter? Why is it necessary to select 4 things vs one and why does it not tell the user why the chamfer doesn’t work. it works the same for all users when they do the same things identically. the original poster wants to provoke thought and discussion on the why and get more feedback on why its not working…. or rather why many things like this do not provide more info to help guide the user to a solution..
@MDesign
If you look in the first dialog box in the original post, he is not selecting a face, He has selected 3 EDGES from what I see.
And in the second dialog box in the original post, you see that he tries to select a 4th edge, and that goes red.
If he would have selected a face - you would have seen that a face was selected.
In the documents I posted I also selected edges.
Now he expressed frustration in that it didn't do what he wanted and he wanted to know why. He thought the program should explain why it wouldn't work this way.
I simply came along and said doing it in the manner that was first posted worked for me. And wanted to take a look at his document.
It sounds like things changed as further posts were entered by other folk to where now folks want to know why selecting a face won't work.
How many procedures within programs have I used where I found I needed to go about doing something in a particular manner. Tons. Queen Mary boat loads of times I have found this to be the case.
If I am limited in not being able to do things in all manner of what I think should be allowed, but rather am confined to a few different ways, am I to call these few ways workarounds such as in this case?
Selecting 4 edges was the first thing that came to mind in my case. I certainly don't consider this a workaround or illogical and against intuition.
At this point, I would suggest, let us see your document. Or post a well defined improvement request and let people vote on it.
Hard for me to get to concerned when the first thing that came to mind for me worked with no problem. Seemed plenty intuitive and straight forward way of working to me.
I know. understood. but its not about what is selected, its about why is it giving the error at all and why does it not give you more info on why it is failing with the way it is selected..