FreeCAD: Edges - Chamfers & Fillets

[last updated: 2020-09-22]
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• (link to:) FreeCAD: chamfer (flat bevels)
• Select a single or multiple edges or a face on an object
• in Part Design, select chamfer tool
• enter desired size, click OK
  size must be less than thickness of pad or whatever base object
• To clarify:
  Part Design, Model, select the entity containing the face you want to chamfer around
  select the face on the drawing
  Tasks, select chamfer, enter thickness/width of chamfer, click OK
• link to: FreeCAD: fillet (rounded edges)
• Fillets are problematic. Seems they take up so much processing and/or memory (or FC is just buggy)
  that if you have more than a couple of them in your drawing, FC crashes.
• As an alternative, I export an stl file from FC, import it into Blender, and do bevel/rounding there,
  then export a finished stl from Blender for slicing.
  It works MUCH better.

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