How do you make a rounded corner in CC?

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I am having a frustrating time trying to round the top corners of the top shape. The boolean options are not working out.
Any tips on making rounded rectangles?

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Draw two rectangles, overlapping, so as to leave a square notch, which is the desired radius. Draw in the circles at the corners, then union everything.

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Thank you Will. That worked…

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@WillAdams
Will, same drawing as above…I can’t make a contour path for the Cam shapes.
I hand traced a drawing using the CC feature. However, I think it is not a closed path.
How it that accomplished? I tried to move the endpoints on top of each other, but no joy.

Thanks for your help.

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The last time I tried w/ Carbide Create, it wouldn’t make an open path.

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@WillAdams

Can you report this as a bug then?

If you turn off the Snap to Grid, I can’t get the endpoint nodes to join and thereby create a closed path.
With snappy turned on, works fine, but only on grid intersections.

I can work around for now by intentional starting and stopping my special shape on a grid intersection, then turn snap off for the rest of the shape.

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@WillAdams

Will - Please let me know if you have confirmed and passed this on.

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Who should I direct this to?

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Sorry, had to cut the grass last night.

Contact support@carbide3d.com ?

I really wish all programmers would use Literate Programming so as to keep documentation and program capabilities in synch.

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Roger on that…over…

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Hey @WillAdams, I’m trying to make rounded corners on a simple square in CC, but having no luck at all. I tried the method you describe here, but I must be doing something wrong. Here is what I’ve done:

  1. I have my larger square, which I want to have rounded corners.
  2. draw a square the size of the desired corner radius, and align it so it’s in the corner of the larger square.
  3. create a circle, with the center on the corner of the small box, and the radius ending on the edge of the larger box.
  4. But no matter what combination of unions I try, I can’t get it to round the corner of my larger square.
    Can you offer any advice, please?

Here’s an image, to hopefully make things clearer:

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Does this thread help?

Or this one?

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I truly believe there are certain shapes and sizes that just won’t work. I have a simple square (2.625 inch) that I have spent hours trying to put a 1/4 radius on the corners, but to no avail.

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In such cases, send a copy of the file w/ instructions for creating the problem to support@carbide3d.com

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Yes, those help very much, thanks!

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I have been playing with this as well and though I can create a square with rounded corners I can’t scale it to the dimms I need without losing the complete squair. Is there a trick to making that happen or is it not an option?

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Create the geometry at the correct size, then use the second technique (the chopped off square which can be used to remove the extras so as to create a rounded corner) to round off the corners.

Alternately, draw everything in a suitable vector editor reduced by half the endmill diameter, then apply a rounded path to it, then expand that path.