3D Studio Max: Chamfering

Onimoto · 25-12-2004, 02:36 AM

I've heard alot of people refer to chamfering, but I have to idea how to use it and I cant seem to find it in the help files, anyone able to explain or anyone know a tutorial that uses it?

Goig! · 25-12-2004, 08:00 AM

Chamfering is an exellent modelling tool, and quite simple to use.
Make a cube and turn and collapse it into a editable mesh or poly mesh.

Go to edge sub-level, select an edge and click on the Chamfer button, now when you move your cursor over an edge it will turn into a little rectangle with two arrows pointing up and down, click on an edge and drag to chamfer it. It splits the edge in two parallel edges, as in the picture bellow.

Goig! · 25-12-2004, 08:02 AM

Now select multiple connected edges, do the same as before and you´ll see how the chamfer tool splits those edges in two and how the new poligons in the intersection are created.

Goig! · 25-12-2004, 08:05 AM

You can chamfer vertices too, select one or more and do the same procedure as before.

Goig! · 25-12-2004, 08:18 AM

Here´s a real life application of the Chamfer tool, I´m working on a model for a commercial and the thing has some spikes/horns on it´s arms, so I chamfer a vertex to get a new poligon on the surface of the mesh, then I inset and extrude the poligon, voila!

prithvi · 26-12-2004, 02:04 AM

Excellent explanation and example there, Goig

Onimoto, would just like to add here.....
You can also use the Chamfer tool to blunt out sharp edges.

After converting your object to Editable Mesh or Poly,
select the particular edge(s) and then click on Chamfer............use a very low value and click on 'Apply' (to chamfer it twice)

Your object's edges will appear blunt now, when its seen from a reasonable distance.

Onimoto · 29-12-2004, 07:18 PM

thanks a ton for the help, especially you goig that was a great explanation. After a bit of testing with it I've found it unbelievably helpful in making my model, thanks again.

scott99 · 30-12-2004, 11:14 AM

WOW!!!!!! you can chamfer a verticie? ROFL after almost 2 years of using 3dsmax, i just learned that

guess the saying of "you learn something new every day" is true.... either that or im a slow learner hehe

25-12-2004, 02:36 AM	#1
Onimoto Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 126 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	3D Studio Max: Chamfering I've heard alot of people refer to chamfering, but I have to idea how to use it and I cant seem to find it in the help files, anyone able to explain or anyone know a tutorial that uses it?

25-12-2004, 08:00 AM	#2
Goig! Yep, a smiley. SO WHAT!? Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posts: 304 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Chamfering is an exellent modelling tool, and quite simple to use. Make a cube and turn and collapse it into a editable mesh or poly mesh. Go to edge sub-level, select an edge and click on the Chamfer button, now when you move your cursor over an edge it will turn into a little rectangle with two arrows pointing up and down, click on an edge and drag to chamfer it. It splits the edge in two parallel edges, as in the picture bellow. __________________ "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

25-12-2004, 08:02 AM	#3
Goig! Yep, a smiley. SO WHAT!? Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posts: 304 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Now select multiple connected edges, do the same as before and you´ll see how the chamfer tool splits those edges in two and how the new poligons in the intersection are created. __________________ "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

25-12-2004, 08:05 AM	#4
Goig! Yep, a smiley. SO WHAT!? Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posts: 304 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	You can chamfer vertices too, select one or more and do the same procedure as before. __________________ "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

25-12-2004, 08:18 AM	#5
Goig! Yep, a smiley. SO WHAT!? Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posts: 304 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Here´s a real life application of the Chamfer tool, I´m working on a model for a commercial and the thing has some spikes/horns on it´s arms, so I chamfer a vertex to get a new poligon on the surface of the mesh, then I inset and extrude the poligon, voila! __________________ "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."

26-12-2004, 02:04 AM	#6
prithvi Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: India Posts: 177 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Excellent explanation and example there, Goig Onimoto, would just like to add here..... You can also use the Chamfer tool to blunt out sharp edges. After converting your object to Editable Mesh or Poly, select the particular edge(s) and then click on Chamfer............use a very low value and click on 'Apply' (to chamfer it twice) Your object's edges will appear blunt now, when its seen from a reasonable distance.

29-12-2004, 07:18 PM	#7
Onimoto Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 126 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	thanks a ton for the help, especially you goig that was a great explanation. After a bit of testing with it I've found it unbelievably helpful in making my model, thanks again. __________________ http://www.threedy.com/site/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25965&pagenumber=2

30-12-2004, 11:14 AM	#8
scott99 Car Modeler Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 409 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	WOW!!!!!! you can chamfer a verticie? ROFL after almost 2 years of using 3dsmax, i just learned that guess the saying of "you learn something new every day" is true.... either that or im a slow learner hehe __________________ people dont listen to me because my conversational aspect of my perception is greatly exceeding the intellect of the beings present at the moment. or maybe i just annoy them

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