Chamfer
At a glance
- Break edges with a chamfer mill / V-bit—pick a loop, a face's boundaries, or a sketch chain
- Size it by the finished bevel width; Mill works out the depth from the tool's angle
- A tip clearance keeps the flank cutting cleanly instead of dragging the point
- Rides the open side of the edge automatically; a flat arrow flips which side when you want it
Chamfer breaks the edges of a part with a chamfer mill or V-bit — the finishing touch that knocks the sharp corner off a profile or a hole rim. Add a Chamfer operation, pick the model edges you want to break — a loop, a face's boundaries, or a sketch chain — and Mill runs the tool along them at exactly the depth for the finished bevel you ask for. Pick as many edges as you like in one operation.
Size by the finished chamfer
You specify the chamfer by result, not by tool position. Type the bevel width you want and Mill works out how deep the tool has to ride from the tool's angle — plus a tip clearance so the flank cuts cleanly instead of dragging the fragile point. A live readout shows the resulting depth, cut height, and offset as you type.
On the right side of the line
The tool automatically rides the open side of the edge — outside an outer profile, inside a pocket or hole rim — so the cone's flank lands exactly on the bevel. Just like Contour, a flat arrow — and the ⇆ button — lets you flip which side it runs when you want the bevel the other way. The chamfer posts as ordinary feed moves and arcs at the computed height, in the same machine dialects as every other operation.