Reshaping Corners

When filleting, you can see that the corners resulting from the operation are not satisfactory. This capability lets you quickly reshape these corners.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open a 3D shape containing an edge fillet or a variable radius fillet that needs to be reshape

Warning: Be careful when selecting the edges, as the order of selection affects the final shape of the fillet. This explains why you may sometimes encounter error messages when filleting.

See Also
Creating Edge Fillets
Creating Edge Fillets Using Variable Radii

Reshape a Corner

You can reshape the corners by defining the setback distance.

Taking a closer look at the corner, you can notice that the edges need to be rounded again:



  1. After launching the Edge Fillet dialog box to edit the fillet, click More>>
    to access additional options.
  2. Click Blend corner(s) to detect the corner to reshape.

    Here, only one corner is detected. The app shows it in the work area.



    Important: When the app detects several corners, it is not possible to reshape just a few of them: all of them will be edited.

    The setback distance box determines for each edge a free area measured from the vertex along the edge. In this area, the system adds material so as to improve the corner shape. The tangent edges are automatically selected if they are in propagation with the selected edges. This allows you to specify the setback distance value exceeding the length of the corresponding concurrent edges.

  3. In the Setback distance box, type a value or use the arrows to change the value.
  4. Click Preview to examine the result:


    To edit the distance for the top edge, click 13 and enter 22 as the new value in the Setback distance box.

  5. Repeat the operation for the edge below using the same distance value.


  6. Click OK to confirm the operation. The corner is reshaped.


Edit Blend Corners

You can edit the blend corners using the options available in the context menu.

When editing an edge fillet containing at least one blend corner, the following options are available in the Blend corner(s) context menu.

Select either:
  • Create by edges: Takes into account the selected and propagated edges, therefore you do not need to select the concurrent edges of the corners. This option replaces the current Blend Corner(s) command and does not remove the existing blend corners.
  • Edit: Displays a list of editable setback values.
    Note: An error message is displayed if you try to edit multiple blend corners.
  • Remove: Removes the selected blend corners.

If no corner is created, only the Create by edges option is available in the context menu.