Does anyone know why you can not chamfer a surface body?
The work around I currently do is make a solid body from my surfaces, chamfer the solid body, then offset all surfaces of the solid body 0 (so copy the outer surfaces) to get my chamfered surface.
Ross, hurry up and submit this as an idea for SWW2013.
https://forum.solidworks.com/community/general/solidworks_world_2013_and_the_top_ten_list?view=idea
There is nothing wrong with that solution Ross. Another method you could use is to fillet, delete the filleted surface(s). Surface loft to close.
Depending on the complexity of the geometry you could also sweep cut a circular section around the edge then surface loft.
As to why there's no chamfer for surfaces, I'm stumped, but I'm sure there's a good reason.
sketch fillet should be the easyest way of dealing with this problem..
Have no idea why it's not an available feature for surfaces. Seems logical.
If you have a fairly simple surface, you could also sketch a line for your chamfer, surface extrude it, and trim away. Still a workaround.