Ken and others,
After I wrote the above post, I got to thinking about the planning ahead thing and thought I would pass along something that I do that you and maybe others may want to implement also.
Any time I am going to make a major change to my drawing, say fillet as above, I open a new drawing and "merge" my present drawing(say part1) into it. Then rename the new drawing some clever name (say Part1a). Now I have the original drawing "frozen" in time. And I do this thru out the entire process, from first line to finished drawing. (part1a, part1b, ect) That way I have a complete "set" of drawings, as the part evolves, just in case I need to go back in time.
It takes a little extra time, but it has saved my butt on more that one occasion.
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