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Fillet

Add an arc between two curves and trims or extends the curves to the arc.

Fillet, Repeat

Repeats the Fillet command until canceled.

Chamfer

Create a line segment between two curves and trims or extends the curves to meet it.

Chamfer, Repeat

Repeats the Chamfer command until canceled.

Connect

Extend and trim curves to meet at their endpoints.

Connect, Repeat

Repeats the Connect command until canceled.

FilletCorners

Round polyline corners with arcs.

BlendCrv

Connect two curves with continuity control.

Blend

Connect two curves maintaining continuity.

ArcBlend

Create an arc blend curve between two curves.

Match

Change a curve end to meet another curve or surface edge with a specified continuity.

Symmetry

Mirror a copy of a curve or surface with continuity.

PointsOn

Display curve and surface control points.

PointsOff

Turn off control, edit, and solid points display.

Offset

Copy a curve parallel to the original.

OffsetMultiple

Copy curves or surface edges parallel to the original.

OffsetNormal

Copy a curve on a surface parallel to the original in the surface normal direction.

RemoveMultiKnot

Remove multiple knots from curves and surfaces.

OffsetCrvOnSrf

Copy a curve on a surface parallel to the original.

ExtendDynamic

Lengthen a curve by its natural extension to a boundary or point.

Link to Extend toolbar

Extend, to boundary

Lengthen a curve to a boundary curve or edge.

CrvSeam

Change the seam (start/end) location on closed curves.

Crv2View

Create a curve by averaging two input curves that are planar in two different views.

MatchCrvDir

Change a curve's direction to match another curve's direction.

CSec

Create cross-section curves through profile curves.

Rebuild

Reconstruct curves, surfaces, and extrusion objects to a specified degree and control point number.

Rebuild, SelectMasterCurve

Rebuild curves to match a master curve.

RebuildCrvNonUniform

Interactively modify selected curves by non-uniformly re-spacing the control points.

FitCrv

Make a non-rational NURBS curve of a specified degree that matches the input curve to within the specified tolerance.

ChangeDegree

Change the degree of the polynomial that defines the curve or surface by adding or subtracting control points between knot spans, while maintaining the knot structure.

Fair

Remove large curvature variations in a curve while limiting the geometry changes to the specified tolerance.

MakeUniform

Make the object knot vectors uniform without changing the control point locations.

SimplifyCrv

Replace each curve segment that has the geometry of a line or an arc with a true line or arc.

Convert, Curve to polyline

Change a curve to polyline segments.

Convert, Curve to arcs

Change a curve to arc segments.

MakePeriodic

Remove the kink from the start/end of a curve or surface.

MakeNonPeriodic

Insert a kink at the start/end of a curve or surface.

CloseCrv

Close open curves.

ContinueCurve

Continue to draw the selected curve using control points.

ContinueInterpCrv

Continue to draw the selected curve interpolating through picked points.

DeleteSubCrv

Remove a portion of a curve that is between two locations.

ExtractSubCrv

Separate or duplicate polycurve segments.

SubCrv

Shorten a curve to the new picked endpoints and select.

SubCrv, Copy

Copy a shortened curve.

InsertLineIntoCrv

Flatten the curve segment between picked points.

TweenCurves

Create curves between two open or closed input curves.

OffsetMultiple

Copy curves or surface edges parallel to the original.

CurveBoolean

Trim, split, and join curves based on their overlapping regions.

Curve Boolean: Delete inputs

Trim, split, and join curves based on their overlapping regions and delete all input curves.

Project

Project curves/points toward a construction plane to intersect a surface, polysurface, mesh, or SubD.

Project, Loose

Project curves/points toward a construction plane to intersect a surface using the Loose option.

CrvStart

Place a point object at the start of a curve.

CrvEnd

Place a point object at the end of a curve.

ShowEnds

Open the End Analysis control, and display the endpoints of curves.

ShowEndsOff

Close the End Analysis control, and turn off endpoints of curves.

MoveExtractedIsocurve

Allows moving a curve created by the ExtractIsocurve command with History.

AddGuide

Add temporary infinite guide / construction line.

RemoveGuide

Remove temporary infinite guide / construction line.

RibbonOffset

Offsets a closed curve and then creates a ruled or sweep2 surface between the input and offset curves.