Creating Rounded Corners on Contours

  1. Select ply groups, plies, or cut-pieces to process.

    Composites Corner analyzes the entities and displays the corners that can be rounded.

    • A candidate corner that has not yet been rounded is displayed as a green crossed circle if it is valid, as a black crossed circle if it is not valid.
    • An already rounded corner is displayed as a yellow star, with its current radius value. If it is not valid, the star turns black.
    • Corners with added material are marked with a red full circle.
  2. Draw a trap around the corners to process.
  3. As an alternative to the selection by trap, use Select all, Deselect all or Select xxmm radii, or select the corners one by one.
  4. Enter a radius in the dialog box.
    A preview is displayed

  5. Optional: Filter the corners to process
  6. Click Apply to validate the creation of those corners.
  7. Repeat as required.
  8. Click Propagate to automatically propagate a radius applied to a first corner to the following ones in its group.
    1. Select the first corner and apply a new radius value.


    2. Select other corners and click Propagate.

      Corners are grouped according to their distance and shape.

      A progressive value is computed for the following corners.

  9. To regenerate a sharp corner on an existing rounded corner, set the radius to 0.
  10. Double-click a Rounded Corner Contour.x or click Composites Corner to edit rounded corners.
  11. Right-click a stacking and select Stacking Object > Remove Rounded Corners to delete all the rounded corners in a stacking.