Talk:Chamfer
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Should the second "exterior" read "interior? If not, would someone please clarify
- Thanks, I fixed it. Kappa 06:35, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] chamfer notation on engineering drawings
When a chamfer is annotated on an engineering drawing, does the length correspond to the hypotneuse or the two equal edges of the right triange formed?
The complete answer is actually fairly complex, since it gets into GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, [1]). The short answer is that enough information must be shown to unambiguously describe the chamfer. Typically this is done by showing the lengths of the two non-hypotenuse sides of the triangle. Alternately, you could show the length of one such side as well as the angle formed between the chamfer and one of the sides of the object being chamfered. I have never seen a chamfer illustrated using the length of the hypotenuse; I suppose it could be done, but for GD&T reasons I won't get into, it's generally not a good way of doing it. Fasrad 16:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] is a fillet a chamfer?
quoted from article: "Chamfers may be both exterior (cutting off an external angle) and interior (filling in an internal angle). A fillet is the opposite, rounding off an interior corner."
The first sentence says that a fillet is a chamfer, as something that fills in an interior angle can be called a chamfer. The second sentece says that a fillet is the opposite of a chamfer, implying that something that fills in an interior angle is *not* a chamfer. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.17.139.211 (talk • contribs).
