Pretty basic Question

[Amacdes]

Hi Im a new boy to solidworks and have a pretty basic
question. - If I have a piece of RHS - say 25x25x3,
which is the best way of putting a 45degree chamfer.
across the total end face of the member.
Is a plane the same as a surface when it comes to cutting the chamfer?

Thanks in Advance Allan

 

[SBaugh]

Pick the edges and click chamfer on your features Toolbar.

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[brengine]

Pick the end face (that all the edges are on) and click chamfer.

 

[TheTick]

Are you trying to put a small chamfer on the edges, or are you actually trying to miter cut the entire end?

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[Amacdes]

Sorry to be misleading but I did mean mitre the end
as opposed to chamfer. Also what is the difference (if any)
between surface and plane when it comes to cutting?

Regards Allan

 

[TheTick]

You can put a sketch on any planar surface, be it a datum plane, solid planar face, or planar face of a surface body.

Sketch the miter right on the face of your solid body and use "Insert --> Cut --> Extrude". With extruded cut, you can get away with just sketching a single line across the entire model, but you may want to define the entire cut shape (triangle or trapezoid).

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[TateJ]

You could still use the CHAMFER tool on this - as long as one side of the chamfer dimension matches the thickness of your part.
In other words a chamfer - if it's big enough - becomes a miter.

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[JNR]

Ref. Don't forget that when you cut-extrude with a line (or closed profile) you will be sketching on the SIDE face - not the end itself. I know it sounds obvious, but I described the same thing to someone once and thier brain was thinking along a preconcieved direction and they missed that point.

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