ROUND CORNERS with FredoCorner – New SketchUp Extension!

In today’s video, we’re going to check out a brand new corner rounding extension from Fredo6 – FredoCorner!

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FredoCorner Introduction

FredoCorner is a new extension from Fredo6 designed to help you generate rounded corners or edges within SketchUp. It’s very similar to the old RoundCorner extension, but it generates rounded edges using an improved algorithm, and also adds some new tools.

FredoCorner’s New Functions

  • Probably the biggest change within FredoCorner as opposed to RoundCorner is that now the corners are all symmetrical, and they can be edited using the profile rounding function. This allows you to adjust the way your rounded curves are created within FredoCorner.
  • It also now offers you the ability to invert your curves, allowing you to create corners that move inward, as well as outward.
  • It can handle much more complex corners now than RoundCorner could before.
  • The new preview button allows you to quickly view what your created geometry would look like without actually creating it.
  • It also allows live editing of your curves by clicking and dragging with preview mode active.
  • If you hold the control key, you can live edit the number of segments in your curve
  • You can edit your offset line lengths now by clicking on them and entering a value – you can offset individual lines, or full offsets by double clicking.
  • One MAJOR update is the ability to now round groups and components. You can now select a group or component and activate FredoCorner without having to edit the raw geometry!
  • The new undo/edit functions is also very powerful – it allows you to revert rounded objects back to their states from before they were rounded!

Cost Note
There’s also now a subdivide function that will split your object into quads, allowing you to use an extension like SubD or Artisan to subdivide your shapes without any deformation.
I will point out that Fredo has noted that this will become a paid extension in a couple months when the bugs are worked out. I don’t have any information on the price, but I’d say that this is a great decision by him – if he can be supported by creating extensions, he’s more likely to keep creating great extensions like this one!!!!

About Justin Geis

Hi, I'm Justin Geis, and I'm the founder of The SketchUp Essentials. I started using SketchUp as part of my work as a general contractor in 2008. I quickly realized the power of the software and started using it for personal projects. I started The SketchUp Essentials as a place to share easy to follow SketchUp tutorials and tips to help everyone harness the power of 3D Modeling in their lives. When not working with SketchUp, I enjoy playing soccer and spending time with my wife and our two dogs.