Chamfer

I tried searching for a way to chamfer the geometry corners and couldn't find much. So here's a definition to help you all.
(all you need to do is define the geometry in rhino)

And of course, do let me know if there's a simpler way to do it and/or there's a plugin for it

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Permalink Reply by Birk Binnard on July 16, 2016 at 6:08pm

Nicely done - but if I give it a rectangle the DArc function fails because Explode outputs both curves and lines. This doesn't seem to bother the end results though.

I wonder how difficult it would be to adapt this for a 3D shape (like a box.)

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on July 18, 2016 at 6:31am

Hi Nishant,
I began attacking this via the Curve.GetFilletPoints method, but stumbled a bit over the error checking (overlapping fillets/chamfers) and then ran out of time, so instead I came up with an alternative more in the spirit of your definition: replace (certain) fillets with chamfers, thus relying on the fillet components' error checking. Turns out that I'm not alone at stumbling though;) Best keep the fillets radii small compared to the curve segments.
Personally I think it's a bit silly to do it this way, but anyhew, I attached four similar approaches.

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