Add-in for Autodesk Fusion

Chamfer anything you can sketch.

Complex Chamfer turns raised text, logos and ornament into crisp, faceted relief in one step, right in your design. Script, blackletter, Japanese and the tangled outlines Fusion's own chamfer gives up on.

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What it does

The bevel Fusion can't make, in a single command.

Fusion's chamfer works edge by edge and stops at tight curves, sharp serifs and strokes that cross. Complex Chamfer works on the whole outline at once and builds the faceted roof a stone-cutter would: planar faces, straight ridges, clean mitres where strokes meet.

Any outline

Serif and script lettering, blackletter, CJK, logos, borders and filigree. If it is raised from a flat face, it can be chamfered.

Bottom-In or Top-Out, your angle, your cap

Bottom-In removes material, bevelling to a faceted ridge. Top-Out adds it, keeping the whole top face and flaring to the floor. Set the side angle and where the top is cut, from the top or from the base.

Native to your design

Results are exact solid geometry joined to your body, as one undo step and one timeline group. Everything you didn't select stays exactly as it was.

Pick or select all

Click the features you want, or select all and exclude the border frame. The dialog shows each feature's height before you commit.

One run, not an afternoon

A whole plaque of mixed type converts in a single run. Doing the same by hand means sketching and cutting every facet.

Made to be made

Built for 3D printing, CNC and casting: closed solids with planar faces, ready to export as STL or 3MF. One setting makes even the finest strokes print.

Before and after

Straight from Fusion, one run each.

Plain extruded relief in, faceted chamfers out. These are unretouched Fusion viewport captures; every one is a single Complex Chamfer command.

A plate in Fusion with flat-topped extruded blackletter text, serif capitals and icons

The same plate after Complex Chamfer: every letter and icon bevelled to faceted ridges

Blackletter, a serif with hairline joins, and icons with counters, arrows and interlocking links, all in one pass.

A tapering bar, a starburst of spokes and an interlaced ring, extruded flat in Fusion

The same shapes chamfered: spokes meet at a point and the interlaced ring's crossings form straight valleys

A starburst of spokes meeting at one point and an interlace full of crossings: the hard cases for an edge-by-edge chamfer.

A tray insert in Fusion: a raised frame with a grid of bars forming square pockets

The same insert: the outer frame stays square and full height, every bar is chamfered

With Skip border and Attached, the frame keeps its square edges and full height while every bar joined to it is chamfered, here at a shallow 15° side angle.

One command, many typefaces

From a plain sign to a finished plaque.

Every line of this plaque was converted in a single run: sans and serif text, Bauhaus, script, blackletter, Japanese and an interlaced border. Strokes that touch or cross are joined into one continuous roof.

Holes, counters and islands handled automatically
Crossing strokes meet in clean, straight valleys
Mixed relief heights on the same face

A plaque in Fusion with chamfered lettering in several typefaces, Japanese characters and an interlaced border — Converted in Fusion with Select all, 45° sides.

Bottom-In or Top-Out

Carve the lettering, or set it on a plinth.

Bottom-In removes material: it bevels each feature inside its own outline, from the floor up to a faceted ridge. Top-Out adds material: it keeps the top face whole, exactly as you drew it, and slopes the sides outward to the floor, so the lettering stands on a solid, printable base.

Script lettering chamfered Bottom-In: each stroke rises to a faceted ridge inside its outline — The outline stays where it was; the top becomes planar facets meeting in straight ridges.

The same script lettering chamfered Top-Out: every top face is kept whole and the sides flare outward to the floor — The top face is untouched; the sides flare out at your angle. Close letters merge in a groove, small counters become pits.

A Fusion plate with the words Chamfer down and Chamfer up, each followed by the numbers 25, 35, 45, 65 and 75 chamfered at that many degrees — Top-Out (upper rows, lettered “Chamfer down” on the plate) and Bottom-In (lower rows, “Chamfer up”) at 25°, 35°, 45°, 65° and 75°. Each number is chamfered at its own angle: shallow angles give broad, low bevels; steep ones stay close to the original walls.

The cap sets the top's height, then the chamfer flares from it
Flares stop cleanly at the edge of the base face
Same side angle, same planar facets, either way

Ready for the printer

Fine strokes that actually print.

A chamfer turns a hairline serif into a sliver no nozzle can lay down, and a slicer quietly skips it. Turn on Ensure FDM extrude and every feature stands on a wall at least one extrusion line wide and one layer high, so the first layer traces every stroke. Above that layer the chamfer is unchanged.

Pick your nozzle: 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 or 0.8 mm fills in the usual line width and layer height
Adjust both to match your slicer profile
Strokes narrower than a line are widened, centred on the stroke; wide ones keep their exact outline
Off by default, and remembered once you set it

A 0.3 mm stroke at 45° with a 0.4 mm nozzle, in section. Its peak is lower than one layer, so it becomes a flat block one line wide and one layer high; the dashed outline is the chamfer it replaces.

Inside Fusion

It works the way Fusion works.

Complex Chamfer sits in the Modify menu next to Fillet and Chamfer. Choose a base face, choose features, Bottom-In or Top-Out, set the angle and cap, and click OK. Undo it like any other feature.

Base face
The flat face the relief stands on.
Features
Click them, or select all.
Direction, angle, cap
Bottom-In or Top-Out, how steep, where the top is cut.
OK
Exact solids, joined to your body.

The Complex Chamfer dialog in Fusion: base face, features, select all, skip border, attached, outline, chamfer Bottom-In or Top-Out, side angle, cap and distance, and a 3D Printing group with FDM extrude, nozzle, line width and layer height

Origin mark

Invisible in the part. Readable in the file.

Models made with a trial or Personal licence carry an origin mark: a keyed pattern woven into the geometry of each chamfer. The variation is a few hundredths of a degree, far finer than any printer, cutter or eye can resolve, so your part looks, fits and prints exactly as designed.

The mark lives in the shape itself, not in metadata, so it stays with the model when it is exported to STL or 3MF, moved, rotated or scaled. Our detector can read it from a downloaded file and tell which kind of licence made it. That is how we keep the Personal price low: models that are sold, or uploaded to sites that pay creators in points or rewards, such as MakerWorld, need a Commercial licence.

Licence	Output
Free trial	Marked
Personal	Marked
Commercial	No mark

Chamfered lettering in Fusion. The origin mark cannot be seen.

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Pricing

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Everything, for long enough to know.

30 days, 10 conversions, 50 features

Every feature
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Output carries the origin mark

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Personal

Your own prints, gifts and hobby projects.

$19one time

plus tax where it applies

Every chamfer feature except Emboss and Pedestal
Non-commercial use
Not for selling, or for MakerWorld and other sites that reward uploads
Free updates within version 1
2 computers
Output carries the origin mark

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Commercial

Prints you sell, uploads that earn points or rewards, and client work.

$59per year