Creating an Automatic Fillet

Automatic filleting lets you fillet the edges of a surface in only one shot.


Before you begin: Create a 3D shape containing a surface with sharp edges.
  1. In the Support box, select a support surface to manage the feature which is to be filleted.
  2. In the Selection type list, select the computation mode.
  3. Optional: If you do not want to fillet the whole edges of the surface, select the faces which you do not want to fillet in the Functional faces box.

    The selected faces turn purple, indicating that they will not be filleted.

  4. In the Fillet radius box, define the radius value you want to assign to the concave edges in the Fillet radius box.
  5. Select the Round Radius check box and define a radius to round convex edges.
  6. Select the Show curvature less than check box to ensure that the app displays the fillets whose radius value is less than the smaller radius value you entered in the box.
  7. Click Invert material side to reverse the orientation of the virtual material side. In this case, concave edges become convex and convex edges become concave.
  8. Optional: Click More>> to expand the dialog box and display images helping you define your specifications:
  9. Click OK.