: Round corners (fillet) in Illustrator CS6 I have the following figure in which I need to make a fillet to each its corners: Is there some tool to avoid doing this manually? I tried the Effect

@Kevin459

Here's another method.


Make the connector wider than you need.
Then apply a thick stroke, and set the stroke to rounded corners.





Object > Expand
Object > Compound Path > Release
Object > Ungroup.
Select the outer shape and delete it, leaving the inner one.





Apply new stroke and fill as required.

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@Yeniel278

The others have given an answer that works by eyeballing and plugi. I will give 2 answers that work by measurement. THe otehr one uses a script the other is manual

By Script

There is a wonderfully useful script by Hiroyuki Sato, called round any corner, that allows you to do this quickly and painlessly much like CC verisons. Although the gui is a bit more clunky.



By offset

If you have shape that you want to round by say 12 pt radius then you can offset the path by -12 pt and place the center of a circle on the new corner. (you can draw a exact circle by alt clicking on corner of the offset and type in 24pt by 24 pt).



Now while this may not be usefull for round corners en masse its good when you need accurate nonround corners ;)

Also a offshot of this trick is to offset inside then otside by same amount, but this can also adjust the overall shape of noncorners.

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@Murray976

If I did not have the VectorScribe plug in from AstuteGraphics.com (which I highly recommend)... I'd use circles and the Shape Builder Tool


Switch to outline mode (View > Outline)
Zoom in so you can see the paths well.
Draw a circle the diameter of your desired curve.
Align the circle to the edges of your existing shape.
Grab the Shape Builder Tool and merely drag across the corners.
Delete the circles.
Clean up as necessary.




You merely need to ensure the paths of the circle overlap the original object paths.

It's stuff like this which makes VectorScribe a "must have" in my opinion. It's not impossible to accomplish without the plug in, but 60 seconds manually or 3 seconds with the plug in. In addition the plug in is dynamic so I can alter the radius of the curve later if I need. There's no way to do that effectively without the plug in.

For what it's worth... I still work primarily in CS6 because I prefer it. I have CC but all Illustrator CC has done is copy the AstuteGrahics plug in functions and made them part of the native application, but they still aren't as good from Adobe as the plug ins are, even when using AICC. I use VectorScribe in both CS6 and CC.

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@Cody3331749

The easiest way would be to just plot out where you want the start and end of your rounding to be with guides.

Then using the add anchor point, +, and remove anchor point, -, tools.



Once you add each point, remove the corner point and using the anchor point tool, drag out the corner while holding down the Shift key to keep it inline with the top.

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@Bryan765

There's no easy way to do this nativley in Illustrator CS6. (In the last couple of CC editions Adobe implemented a tool called Live corners which does it)



If you just used the Rounded Corner effect, it warps the circle (see below)

You have to do a bit of prep first:

Add in a line (dashed in my case) in a locked background layer (to align both my anchor points evenly)

Then place 2 anchor points there (one on each side), and only then can you use the Effects → Rounded Corners

The problem with first doing rounded corners effect, is that it causes the circle to get warped (because there aren't any anchor points, if you add them in, it stops the rounding at that anchor point)



Notice, that I did not add in anchor points to the bottom part, and it got warped

Update: in my image it seems as though it is warping the path. here are the outcomes (after rounding corner effect):



Overlayed at 30% (after that anchor point, none of the rest of the path is effected):





For a much easier and simpler method, I would recommend a great plug-in by Astute Graphics* called Vectorscribe.

It is very simple and easy to use. (It isn't free, however they offer a 14 day free trial)

It also has some other tools included in vectorscribe, like measurements and path cleanup

Vectorscribe in action:





*I'm not affiliated with Astute Graphics

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