Creating Tritangent Fillets

You can create a tritangent fillet by selecting three faces, two of which are supporting faces. The creation of tritangent fillets involves the removal of one of the three faces you selected.

Before you begin: Open a 3D shape representation with three faces of which two are supporting faces.
See Also
About Creating Fillets
Creating Edge Fillets
Creating Variable Radius Fillets
Creating Face-Face Fillets
  1. From the Refine section of the action bar, click Tritangent Fillet .
  2. In the Faces to fillet box of the TritangentFillet.x dialog box, select the two faces to be filleted.


  3. Select the face to be removed. This face is tangential to the fillet.



    Click Preview.

    Tip: If you select three faces and click Tritangent Fillet , the app selects the third face automatically, as face to remove.
  4. In the Limiting element(s) box select the limiting element.

    • You can define one or more limiting elements.
    • You can right-click the Limiting element(s) box and select the required command.

    • Note: You can trim the tritangent fillets to defined limiting element. An arrow appears on the plane to indicate the portion of material that is to be filleted. Clicking this arrow reverses the direction and therefore indicates the opposite portion of material.

    The faces are filleted. The fillet is limited up to the limiting plane or curve. A node TritangentFillet.x is created in the tree.