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idiotsecantyesterday at 8:42 PM5 repliesview on HN

Its not often you see 'fillets and chamfers' are tip-line features in the readme for CAD packages. But good on you for building something.


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carpenecopinumtoday at 9:24 AM

This is honestly the first thing I look for with anything new claiming "CAD".

Roughly every other week there is a new "The (programmable) CAD that fixes everything!" post on the front page, just for me to open them up excitedly and noticing that they use a mesh kernel and will thus never be able to provide fillets and chamfers painlessly (for the user). All while they are absolutely essential for a lot of designs, especially in 3D-printing, a well-placed fillet/chamfer can make the difference between an object that breaks upon looking at it funny and one that can bear significant load.

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magicalhippoyesterday at 8:56 PM

> Its not often you see 'fillets and chamfers' are tip-line features in the readme for CAD packages.

Well the readme states the following:

Solvespace on the other hand gets the workflow part right, but falls short by not importing STEP and the geometry kernel not supporting chamfers and fillets.

So I assume that's where that comes from.

Sakthimmyesterday at 9:27 PM

Well, implementing fillets and chamfers is no easy task, so it's well deserved to be there.

Source: been there, done that.

Brian_K_Whitetoday at 4:38 AM

fillets and chamfers are at the same time both ridiculously difficult and ridiculously important.

alanbernsteintoday at 1:04 AM

It has been one of the main complaints about openscad for some time

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