Create a Fillet: 0 command to save time.

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  Posted April 1, 2008

  by Sanne Buurma
  

  Whilst working in AutoCAD, you can trim and extend your edges to make a intersection between two lines into a corner. But why use 2 commands to extend and trim the lines to each other, while you can easily do it in 1 command. Set the fillet to a radius of 0mm and select both lines and the corner is realized. And for those who know a little bit more about making custom commands, program a button which sets your fillet radius to 0mm and let's you select the edges immediately. Use this DIESEL code in your button: ^C^C_fillet;_r;0;_fillet

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  April 1, 2008 04:08 PM Mark Kenyon

  This was a good tip and when in AutoCAD it was used by my group all the time. We work in Mechanical 2008 now and interestingly enough there is a button on the AM_Modify tool bar called Join Entities that does exactly the same thing. I am surprised that it wasn't added in the AutoCAD commands as well. Try creating a button and use the command ^C^C_join. In fact, check customization to see if it is already in there? Good luck, Mark

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  April 1, 2008 04:18 PM Kent Stoeger

  You can also achieve this by holding down the shift key while selecting the lines. Works on both the fillet and chamfer command.

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  April 1, 2008 04:34 PM Brandon Zeone

  Trim / Extend can also be used concurrently with the shift button. If you are in the Trim command and need to Extend a line to the same object line, holding SHIFT allows you to Extend lines....until SHIFT is released. It works either way - while trimming or extending.