About Fillet Connect

Fillet Connect creates surfaces, either to fill a surface, or extend a surface where the boundaries contain fillets. You can

• Create an automatic surface along the boundary of a surface.
  • Fillet Connect analyzes the boundary and identifies fillets with symmetry and fillets without symmetry
    • If no fillets are found, a message is displayed, nothing is created.
    • If fillets are found, the edges of fillets are connected to create a surface (In blue below).
      
      
  • On all areas where fillets are detected, the fillets are connected into a surface to extend the input surface.
  • For an inner boundary, select the Fill inner boundary check box. If there are areas to extend, the extension is computed on the corresponding areas. A fill is computed to complete the remaining areas.
• Automatically fill complex holes using the Piece Wise Fill method. Fillets are connected as described above (In blue), then the remaining gap is filled (In pink).
  
  
• Select pairs of edges to connect, one on the right side, one on the left side.
  • The edges must intersect the boundary of the surface.
  • The pairs cannot create intersecting splines.
  Fillet Connect computes the connection between each pair to create the surface between the connecting curves. For example
  • This is a manual surface created with one pair of edges. The surface is created between the boundary and the spline connecting the two edges.
    
    
  • This is a manual surface created with several overlapping pairs. A spline is created between each pair. The splines guide the surface extension.
    
    

  Use this solution when the analysis does not provide an area to extend, or to create a surface between multiples particular elements, or edit a result from another method.