RoundCorner for SketchUp Tutorials

Extension Name

Round Corner

Extension Developer

Fredo6

Extension Cost

Free

Where to get it
Roundcorner Download Link – https://sketchucation.com/plugin/1173-roundcorner

Dependencies – LibFredo Download – https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LibFredo6

Extension Description – Roundcorner

Roundcorner is an extension from Fredo6 for SketchUp designed to help you add rounded edges and bevels to your SketchUp models. It allows you to both round off and bevel your corners, and is great for creating rounded edges and chamfers in your models!

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Roundcorner for SketchUp Function Description

This extension basically contains 3 tools –

• Round Corners
• Sharp Corners
• Bevel Corners

These tools allow you to take edges in SketchUp and round them off.

Round Corners Tool

This tool is designed specifically to create rounded corners and edges. It will basically take your edge and round it off to a curve. This particular tool will take the corners and round them off, and you can also set the number of segments created in each curve that makes up your rounding.

Shape Corners Tool

This tool is very similar to the round corners tool – it also rounds off your edges, but it creates the corners in a way that the edges that are created come to a point, rather than to a curve. The benefit to this is that your corners terminate in a more symmetrical way.

Bevel Tool

Instead of creating round edges, Bevel allows you to add a simple bevel to your edges. This is an excellent tool to add a quick bevel or chamfer without creating a whole lot of geometry that will slow down your SketchUp model.

Final note – a lot of the time, one of the complaints that a lot of people have about 3D models in general is they look a bit unrealistic. One of the reasons for this is that in real life, edges never come to a sharp corner, but rather they have a bit of imperfection to them. The brain unconsciously rejects sharp corners for some people, so by using a tool like RoundCorner for SketchUp, you can make your models look much more realistic!