Creating Face-Face Fillets

You can create a face to face fillet by selecting two faces. The Face-Face Fillet command is generally used when there is no intersection between the faces or when there are more than two sharp edges between the faces.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Face-Face Fillet
About Creating Fillets
Creating Edge Fillets
Creating Variable Radius Fillets
Creating Tritangent Fillets

Create a Basic Face-Face Fillet

You can create a basic fillet by selecting two faces.

  1. From the Refine section of the action bar, click Face-Face Fillet .
    The FaceFillet.x dialog box appears.
  2. Select the faces you want to fillet.


  3. In the Radius box, enter a radius value.
  4. Click Options for more options and information.
  5. In the Limiting element box, select the required elements.
    An arrow appears on the plane to indicate the portion of material that is to be filleted.

  6. Optional: Click the arrow to reverse the direction.
  7. Click OK.
    The faces are filleted. The fillet is trimmed by the trimming plane. The element is introduced in the tree.

Create a Face-face Fillet Using a Hold Curve

Instead of entering a radius value, you can use a "hold curve" to compute the fillet. Depending on the curve's shape, the fillet's radius value is then more or less variable.

  1. Select two faces as shown in the image below. Click Options to access further options.


  2. In the Hold Curve box, select a curve.

    Note: The curve must be sketched on one of the selected faces.

  3. In the Spine box, select the required spine .

    The spine provides a better control of the fillet.

    To compute the fillet, the app uses circles contained in planes normal to the spine. It is then possible to control the shape of the fillet.



  4. Repeat the operation and select another spine.

    The shape of the fillet is changed accordingly.