Trying to chamfer the top of a rod. It only extends vertically

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Hi folks. I am trying to chamfer the end of a rod in Sketchup. I draw a circle on the base plane. I use the push/pull tool to make my rod. Now I want to turn the tip into a chamfer.

The help tells me to choose the move tool and click Command (on Mac) and select an end point on the circle at the end of the rod. I do this with moving the move tool and expect to see the tip tapering inwards. Instead, the rod grows in length.

I created an inner rod using the offset tool but manipulating that only moves it up and down, no chamfering effect there either.

I’ve looked at the preferences for drawing and change most things to see if that makes a difference and of course it doesn’t.

Any clues?

I’ll add my model file. It’s the rod near the right of screen.

Cheers.
Training #10.skp (2.7 MB)

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Do you mean this?
GIF 12-06-2025 10-51-18 AM

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Dear Box,

Yes I did. I think what I was not doing was revealing the edge and working with it. I was working with the faces which only extended or shrunk my solid object.

Thanks a million.

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You can use the face as well but you need to activate autofold. Here I use the up arrow.
GIF 12-06-2025 11-48-06 AM

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You can also copy an edge down then use a cardinal point to reduce the diameter.
GIF 12-06-2025 11-50-54 AM

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See this SU file for another way of creating this.

Rod with chamfered end.skp (234.3 KB)

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And another way. Copy the face and move as shown in previous posts above, then use the scale tool.

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