I wanted to have some fun on a vacation day and mention a staple of AutoCAD use which is the FILLET command. I also wanted an excuse to draw a salmon in AutoCAD.
I have heard people actually pronounce FILLET the same as FILET but they are differently pronounced and different meanings. The AutoCAD FILLET command is immensely helpful for adding a user defined radius between two lines.
Command FILLET “Select first object or [Undo/Polyline/Radius/Trim/Multiple]”.
You can also set the radius to 0 (default) and join two lines and trim them quickly. In AutoCAD you can fillet arcs, circles, elipses, elliptical arcs, lines, polylines, rays, splines, and xlines. You can also fillet 3D solids and surfaces.
Remember it is the FILLET (fill’it) Not the Salmon Filet (fill’ay).
Yes I did draw the northwestern Native American styled salmon carved art in AutoCAD. It was a bunch of fun to come up with in only a few minutes. Below is a link to a DWF file of the drawing.
Download Salmon fillet DWF File
Cheers,
Shaan
Could’nt wait for april the 1st Shaan? 😉
Nope, could not resist some goofiness.
My knife skills aren’t quite to the level of my CAD skills, but I manage to “fillet” a salmon quite well – “fillet” being perfectly acceptable vocabulary for fish, while “filet” is classed as a spelling variant.
In fact, I have some nice sockeye fillets in the freezer and I don’t fault them at all for not being variant. Speaking of variants, my fish-hating GF is gone for a few days. Grill-time tomorrow night!
And as for AutoCAD? It doesn’t do that well with the Peri-peri rub. (http://store.tomdouglas.com/products/rub-with-love-african-peri-peri-rub
Wishes? I’d really like to see a “through point” option for the FILLET command, especially one that DRAGMODE-sketched as you located the through-point. I’ve done a LISP routine (without drag), but it gets flaky sometimes depending on the tangent-selection pick point locations.
Earl,
Great to hear from you. The grill rub sounds awesome and will have to give it a try. I miss living in a rich salmon and steelhead fishing region. When I lived in Oregon I lived just off the world famous Clackamas river and fished almost every day after work.
Cheers,
Shaan