Hello, my name is Randy Dobson. I'm an instructor here in the Houston, Texas area and this video will be covering the fillet command for AutoCAD. Let me apologize up front.
You may hear me call it fillet. That's the way I learned it 20 something years ago. And it stuck with me. So it was not until many, many years later I learned the correct pronunciation. But it means the same thing here.
And what the fillet. will do is it will create a arc a tangent arc for you between any two lines trimming them off or extending them if you like now the the fillet and the chamfer share the same spot so if you see chamfer but you don't see fillet then just go to the fillet command and this is becomes this is starting to be some of your a little bit more complicated commands because you have to improve put information right away before you do anything here it's telling you to select your objects well as you notice my radius is zero i want to put in a radius first before i select anything of we'll just say two i hit enter now when i pick the two lines as you can see it put in a nice curved and if you also notice it extended them let me do that again i'm going to go to you fillet and see it's already set at a radius of two so I can just click select this line select that and there it extends them the other thing it will do for you start it again use the same radius of two is it will clean it up here these two lines are crossing it will take that for you now because these courses are very fast i can only cover the main parts of these commands but this is one of the ones if you notice when i started fillet there's there's a current setting mode of trim you can actually do it to where this stays on whenever you do the fillet i can come over here to trim and then say no trim now when I do it it leaves it like that that might be the way that you want to do it okay but understand that it stays that way no matter what until you change it back to no trim see it's still going to do it again so I would have to go same thing with the radius if I wanted it I would have to first change trim back to to trim and then if I wanted the radius to be three and enter you and I can make a little bit bigger radius here. Now, it won't get rid of your old radius. It won't do everything for you, but it will do that where it will trim it up for you. Another good thing to remember about fillet, which you'll also hear about in chamfer if you haven't heard it already, is I'm going to erase that, and let me just move this over to here.
If I wanted to bring those to a perfect corner, then i could use fillet and give it a radius of zero and that will take it to an absolute corner like that so both both fillet and chamfer will do that for you which is depending on which one you use a lot that's the way that you want to uh to work it uh but it's a it's a very powerful uh command and again no matter what you know if i've got these two lines here and i go to fillet and go to radius and say type in three it will extend those to where it makes that radius see or if i need it to do it like this it would take it away and make it a nice clean tangents arc this is not just a random arc this arc is tangent to both the lines no matter which way you do it okay and if you don't remember the tangent I go back to the circle video I talked in about the tangency there and you know again this is a it's a powerful command but fairly simple just remembering that when you start the command you have to make sure if you whatever radius you want you've got to input that before you select your objects and that concludes this video on fillet aka fillet thank you