Rounded, Chamfered, corners. Are my eyes playing tricks?

A few topics ago (I can't remember which one) there was an OT discussion relating to Apple and their patents.

I jokingly speculated the MHS were taking a risk using rounded corners on the column of boxes on the left of this screen. Now when I look at them they look to chamfered blended with small radii.

Does anyone have an older offline image of these pages that could look to see if MHS have changed them please?

Ian

They had the chamfered look on 6-11-12

Perhaps the chamfer tool wore out. The tools to cut a straight chamfer are cheaper...

Neil

More likely in response to law suit from apple

link

Jason

Thanks for the link, I had not actually seen any of the details but had heard of the patent on a news item.

I seriously cannot believe that MHS change the corner because of what I wrote. I they did then I am even more flabbergasted! (for several reasons)

1/ The Website boxes only has two corners rounded, so has zero connection with the Patent

2/ If the MHS staff can find the time to read this forum and change its graphics, what does it say for their regard of the forum members who have complained, on and off, for months whilst putting up with flaky Website code and not even getting a token response. Many contributors have offered to help MHS too, without any response (to my knowledge)

Ian

Stupidly this SCAYT thing has just tried to correct my spelling of 'connection'. I have it set to 'British English. Oh! and I now see that SCAYT is not in its own dictionary!!!!!

Gray

'I have been using chamfered corners since before they were formed. See photo for details,'

On what susbtrate?

Ian

Tut tut !

I won't mention it to Apple.

Still not sure how you used them before they were formed

Ian

I had better retrain my end milling cutters to leave square corners in a pocket - when I get minute.

In fact I'm going to hand myself over to the authorities as I've just (unwittingly) drawn a rounded rectangle in my CAD program.

Bake me a cake with a file in it, I may be some time...

Martin.

Gray

Stupid me! I thought you meant you used rounded corners before they (rounded corners) were formed.

I am just off to register as a prison visitor to see Martin.

Ian

Edited By Ian Phillips on 13/12/2012 12:16:10

They are not chamfered as such, they are a set of "jaggies" with 1st and last steps slightly bigger.

Surely that is just to do with screen resolution, pixels etc?

Ian

To all British viewers, don't worry about rounding your corners as "rounded corners" do not conform to the standards required for a patent to be granted. If the requirements for a Yankee one are so pathetic, I want to apply for a patent on breathing, so that every one the other side of the pond can pay me 10 cent per year in royalties. That should pay for a nice warm workshop, something I am sadly missing at the moment.

chriStephens

Well Chaps,

What “ a do about nothing” and Ian there is only ONE true version of English !

British English!

It evolved here, we wrote the dictionary here in Britain – it’s the rest of the world that can’t spell !

JohnF,

I would not be so sure that it is only the rest of the world that cannot spell, some here cannot write in proper English either.

Edited By V8Eng on 13/12/2012 19:12:43

Edited By V8Eng on 13/12/2012 19:15:28