Fillet Faces-Faces

allows to create a fillet between two batches of faces.

1. Select the batch of faces from the first side.

2. Reverse the direction, if necessary.

3. Select the batch of faces from the second side.

4. Reverse the direction, if necessary. The arrows indicate the side when creating the fillet.

5. Choose the radius type:

   • Constant radius: The value entered is constrained for the entire fillet.

   • Constant length: The length (shortest distance between the two fillet edges in contact with the set of faces) is constant for the fillet.

   • Variable radius: The fillet radius will change between the input radius r11 and radius r12. r11 is the radius at the start of the intersection edge, and r12 is on the other side.

   • Conical radius: The conical radius is created by entering two radius values for each side of the intersection edge. r11 will be the radius at the start of the edge on the side of the first batch of faces, and r12 will be the radius at the end of the edge on the same side. r21 and r22 will be the equivalents on the second batch of faces.  

6. Validate by clicking .

allows to create a fillet passing by 3 batches of faces.

1. Select the batch of faces from the first side.

2. Reverse the direction, if necessary.

3. Select the batch of faces from the second side.

4. Reverse the direction, if necessary.

5. Select the batch of faces from the third side.

6. Reverse the direction, if necessary. The arrows indicate the side when creating the fillet.

7. Validate by clicking .

To select all of the tangent faces rather than selecting them one by one, use the rotative selection on one of the faces.

Loop: The fillet between ball faces results from having the intersection of the faces form a sphere. The definition of normal to the section planes is not requested for a ball fillet. For a ball fillet with a curvature section shape, you must enter a curvature value. A value of 1 is equivalent to the conical section shape. The closer the value is to 0, the more the curvature will move to the right.

Disk: The disk fillet between faces is created by making the intersection of the faces a disk. For this type of fillet, you must define the guide profile (spine profile) for the disk. The disk's normal is defined by the tangent to a given profile. This profile must be able to define a normal for each point of the fillet. The green profile or edge defines normal for the section plans. The geometry of the fillet is directly influenced by this normal.

Spine profile origin:

When the variable or conical fillet type is chosen and when the spine profile is closed, you can select a point on the spine profil that will be used as the origin of the spine profile. The value of the r11 radius will ba applied on this origin.

When no point is given, the value of the r11 radius is applied on the spine profile origin.

Constraints must be given by the edges of the element. It is therefore necessary to print the constraint profile(s) to the face(s).

The radius defines the maximum radius of the constrained fillet. It must therefore be larger than the greatest distance between the intersection of the two faces and the constraint edge. Otherwise, the constrained fillet will be constant for distances greater than the given radius.

None: Imprinted profiles are not taken into account.

Symmetrical edges: The selected printed edge will be made symmetrical with the intersection edge.

Edges - Edges: Both imprinted edges will be taken into account for the fillet.

Edges - Radius: The fillet will have the entered radius and will be limited by the selected imprinted profile. The radius must be less than the greatest distance between the impression and the intersection edge for the various faces.

Repair auto-intersections: Makes it possible to repair fillets that self-intersect. In the example below, it is not possible to make the fillet without activating this option.

Overlap: (only for blend between faces) extends the fillet after an interruption in either face (pocket for example).

Propagate to discontinuous edges: (only for fillet between faces).Makes the fillet, even if there is a sharp angle between faces of the same side. The input angle must be at least equal to the angle between the two faces. In the example below, just one vertical face was selected, and the entered angle was 15°.

The Angular tolerance allows to enter the angular tolerance to respect during the discontinuous edges propagation.

In this case, the fillet will be created only if the angle is under the tolerance limits.

Point: In some cases, it could be several possibilities. The point allows to select on which side applying the fillet.