Learn/Shape Generator/Built-in profiles
Gusset
At a glance
- Angled triangular gussets for weld-in-place reinforcement
- Fillet or chamfer corner styles
- Sized for common frame and bracket layouts
The Gusset shape (Fabrication category) generates triangular reinforcement gussets for weld-in work — frame corners, bracket webs, table legs. Like Base Plate, it moved from the Plasma workspace's fabrication tools into the Shape Generator, so it's available in every workspace.
Size and angle
Width and Height set the two legs (default 4 × 4 in), and Angle (default 90°, valid range 1–179°) is the included angle between them. 90° gives the standard right-triangle gusset; open the angle up for joints that aren't square — an angled tube junction or a raked frame member. The triangle is centered on its centroid when generated.
Corner styles
Corner Style selects the treatment applied to the outline:
- None — sharp corners, three straight edges.
- Fillet — rounds all three corners with a shared Fillet radius (default 0.25 in), emitted as true arcs. The generator checks each corner and edge and errors out if the radius won't fit the triangle rather than producing overlapping geometry.
- Chamfer — two independent cuts for weldment work. Corner Chamfer (default 1 in) clips the corner at the included angle. Edge Chamfer (default 0.5 in) trims the far ends of both legs, leaving horizontal and vertical flats at the hypotenuse ends — the flats that let the gusset sit against tube faces without a knife edge, and keep the fragile tip out of the weld zone.
Tips
- Oversized chamfer or fillet values fail with a specific message instead of degenerate geometry — if you hit one, shrink the treatment or grow the triangle.
- Cutting a batch? Insert one gusset, then array it in the workspace; the output is a single
closed polyline on
OUTER, so nesting is trivial.