bandolin opened this issue on Dec 02, 2013 · 56 posts
LuxXeon posted Tue, 03 December 2013 at 9:29 PM
Quote - Yeah I came across that last night. I actually thought it was the pared down version of Quad Chamfer, it looked that similar. But if I'm going to shell out money I'd rather go for the cadillac tools.
Good idea, because I just downloaded the EdgChEx demo to see what the differences were between the two. While EdgChEX is certainly a very useful and clever plugin, with many options, it's simply not as robust as Quad Chamfer modifier. Quad Chamfer allows you to work on all available sub-objects (faces,borders,edges, and vertex), while EdgChEx works only with edges and borders. The extrude feature in EdgeChex is a little sloppy in my opinion (granted it's also crippled in the demo), and you need to use a weld parameter to clean up the operation, or the ends of the new extruded edges are messed up. I can see where that might be handy when making very narrow chamfers, where edges might overlap, but it still didn't seem to work right. Quad Chamfer uses a much more simple and elegant solution, and the built-in push and inset parameters create much cleaner, and arguably more logical, geometry beveling, which can be used to fillet, or create domed bevels.
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