# 5.700 - Chordal fillets

**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327
**Category:** Release notes
**Created:** [August 27, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327 "2024-08-27T14:32:30Z")
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### Author: ![Jeriz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jeriz](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jeriz)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327/1 "2024-08-27T14:32:30Z")

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Boost your design efficiency with the latest updates to Fillets, Constraints, and USDZ exports.

- **Improved** : The Fillet tool now supports chordal fillets, giving you more control over edge transitions by defining the fillet through the distance between its endpoints.  

- **Improved** : Now you can directly constrain sketches to the world axes and origin for enhanced precision.  
 ![5.700-world-axes-constraints](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/6/5/65ae9c6143238ec53de774e547ddae99dd731ce8.gif)

- **Fixed** : USDZ exports now retain material quality when imported into Blender, preventing them from appearing washed out.

Try out these updates and let us know your thoughts in the comments below. ⬇

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### Author: ![Jeriz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jeriz](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jeriz)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327/2 "2024-08-27T14:32:37Z")

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### Author: ![jean-philippe2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jean-philippe2/32/27353_2.png) [@jean-philippe2](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jean-philippe2)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327/3 "2024-08-27T15:51:37Z")

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Thanks for this update even if I do not understand the usefulness and difference between chordal fillets and radius.

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### Author: ![danno11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@danno11](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/danno11)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327/4 "2024-08-27T18:21:51Z")

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Where is the variable Fillet command that we had been promised for over a year at. That would be a lot more useful the Chordal Fillets.

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### Author: ![jnygaard.dk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e68b1a/32.png) [@jnygaard.dk](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jnygaard.dk)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-700-chordal-fillets/33327/5 "2025-03-03T16:47:06Z")

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Not sure if this is the update that did it, but the horizontal and vertical distance icons are swapped on ipad. When you click to switch from absolut.

Also weird om Mac, but different weird. It needs an extra test.