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Different width of the Chamfer after Boolean operations

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Hello! Have a problem with continues chamfer on the edges after Boolean operation. On the screen you can see the different width, can't solve it for days, the only way I found is to create first chamfer shape (3rd screen) with Loft and after vertical edges will Chamfer ok, but it is a very tedious way. I tried to connect vertices on 2nd screen with Bridge Curve, but Chamfer is not considering it either.
Thank you for any help!

Answers

  • David_YL_NguyenDavid_YL_Nguyen Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 160

    Hey @alexander_novikov722,
    I can think of using a loft to do this: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6602bfbd29c639087a03c5d2/w/4569d2862c0c11e3125f8d5d/e/c4a52348ffb88993febf35f6

  • alexander_novikov722alexander_novikov722 Member Posts: 3
    edited August 11
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    Hello today encountered the same problem, is it possible to chamfer on top of chamfer or not in onshape?

  • MDesignMDesign Member Posts: 990 ✭✭✭

    Any reason your not doing all three chamfers in the same feature?

  • martin_kopplowmartin_kopplow Member Posts: 840 PRO

    In my experience, it has never been a good idea to apply a chamfer which completely removes an adjacent face, like in this case. That only means asking for trouble downstream.

    Anyway, in this case, the chamfer only APPEARS to be a different width, while it is mathematically correct and the same width: The chamfer at the angled 'pyramid' part has the same distance to the original edge like the others. It is only not measured in any of the orthogonal directions, but perpendicularily to the reference edge, which is at an angle, in this case. To math the two visually , we'd need in fact different width chamfers!

    Since Onshape has no chamfer by width or chamfer up to boundary curve, we'll have to do this one manually.

    Screenshot 2025-08-11 225350.png

    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/73719de0161dc4de743cd62e/w/7e72d3dc11e71709949be02b/e/eb0b4c87fcad21cf28746b46?renderMode=0&uiState=689a585b8a12733d326dbabe

  • eric_pestyeric_pesty Member Posts: 2,278 PRO
    edited August 11

    You could use a "move face" to adjust the chamfered face after the fact.

    Or you could use a face blend to apply a chamfer defined by width but that might be more trouble than it's worth…

    Another option would be to sweep a cutting profile along the chain of edges.

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