For some reason, I am unable to fillet the edges of a rectangle. Possibly a glitch?

[RedJester]

I'm trying to teach myself Autocad (on mac) using a ebook tutorial and even though I'm following the directions to the T, I'm unable to fillet the edges of the damn rectangle. This is really frustrating as I'm pretty positive I'm doing it correctly. Anyways here's my step by step attempt at creating and filleting a rectangle:

 

Creating the rectangle:

1. Rectang

2. 44,16

3. 12,18

4. R

5. 2

 

Filleting the rectangle:

1. I flick the Fillet button

2. I'm prompted to select the first object, I select the rectangle.

3. It then tells me to either select a second object or push shift/select

4. I hold down shift and click on the rectangle again.

5. Nothing happens.

 

What am I doing wrong here? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've been stuck on this for (believe it or not) hours. I've tried youtube tutorials, website tutorials, and nothing seems to work. I'm so frustrated I could scream.

[MarcoW]

Hi RedJester,

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Did you set a radius?

Command "Fillet" > "Radius" like "100" .

 

Next; when invoking "Fillet" then choose "Polyline".

 

Kind regards,

Marco

[eldon]

With a rectangle to those coordinates, the smaller side is only 2 units long.

 

What radius are you trying to fillet with? The maximum radius would be 1 unit long.

[qball]

Shift overwrites your fillet and makes the radius 0. Don't hold shift.

[Cad64]

Command Sequence:

 

Command: FILLET

Current settings: Mode = TRIM, Radius = 0'-0"

Select first object or [undo/Polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple]: Radius

Specify fillet radius : (Type in radius amount)

Select first object or [undo/Polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple]: Polyline

Select 2D polyline: (Click on Rectangle)

[eldon]

Why use Fillet, when you can draw a filleted Rectangle

[RedJester]

Why use Fillet, when you can draw a filleted Rectangle

Um, because the tutorial asked me to lol. It's part of an exercise. I'm going to try it without holding shift, even though it instructs me to hold shift/select if selecting no second object. And for those who had inquired, I was trying to set the radius at 2.

[RedJester]

Thank you CAD64, it was a newbie question, I know, but this is so much different from photoshop!

[Cad64]

this is so much different from photoshop!

 

Indeed it is. :wink:

[eldon]

Have you got the correctly sized rectangle?

 

From the figures that you gave, you could be either drawing the rectangle from 44,16 with dimensions 12 and 18 OR you could be drawing the rectangle with corners at 44,16 and 12,18.

 

If your shape is the second, then the fillet will not work because the shorter side is 2 long and the maximum radius for filleting would be 1. So trying to fillet it with a radius of 2 will not do anything.