Creating a Fillet Problem 1

[Terminus0]

I need to create a fillet at the intersection between two solids and I'm having trouble because Solidworks thinks there is a gap between them. I've tried everything to get rid of this infinitesimal gap but its no good.

Does anyone have anykind of suggestions because every time I use the fillet command it tries to round the bottom of one of the solids instead of creating a fillet between them.
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[Terminus0]

Here you go

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...-4514-8735-d4f99dce7aae&file=Gap_Location.png

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...41f4-ba8e-a18d2cee4c95&file=Showing_a_Gap.png

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...4816-9292-fbb36f645c92&file=Cut_down_copy.x_b

 

[Terminus0]

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...6-4f4f-a6c4-e12b43b6fad7&file=Explanation.png

 

[Eltron]

When you play with surfaces it's sometimes better to extend them through another surface and trim it back. That way you won't run into issues like this. Surf back through your feature manager and fix the issue there.

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

Dan's Blog

 

[Terminus0]

Went back through and trimmed it instead of doing up to surface, didn't seem to help. Gap still exists, even between it and the surface I supposedly trimmed it to.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Do you have active subscription? If so maybe your VAR could offer some help.

Do you belong to a local User Group? Maybe someone from there could take a look.

To offer more pertinent advice, the actual model features need to be interrogated. The parasolid file shows the problem, but not the underlying cause.

 

[Terminus0]

Update, I finally got those two solids to combine, it only involved redrawing half the imported part manually.

 

[Terminus0]

But I'm still having problems using the fillet command on this solid.

 

[berkshire]

Have you tried changing the radius of the fillet? Sometimes this will work.
B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor

 

[Terminus0]

I've tried making the radius much smaller, thinking that the program might be failing because the radius was too big but it didn't work either.

I'm thinking is fillet even the best command to do what I'm trying to do?

 

[ctopher]

Check out the YouTube videos.
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Chris
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[Terminus0]

Here is a parasolid of the section of the part I'm trying to put a fillet on.

http://files.engineering.com/getfil...51-671183b6675d&file=Part_for_Fillet_Help.x_b

(For some reason they uncombined when I made a parasolid of it, so you need to use combine again to attempt to use the Fillet command)

If anyone can put a fillet around the base of at least .1 inches or up. I will give them a high five.

 

[Terminus0]

I think I may have figured it out, I needed to do the variable fillet command.

Well that makes me feel like forty seven million times better.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

The Import Diagnostics tool found & healed several Face problems, but there are still a few problems with faces on the RH side of the Imported1 body.

 

[Terminus0]

Yeah, I've had some wonky geometry plague me for a while. Do you have any advice on how to deal with it?

Other than go back to when it was generated and try to fix it?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I do very little surfacing, but you should be able to use the Delete & Patch and Delete & Fill functions. Failing that you may have to cut out bad portions and add new surfaces.
Sometimes even running through the export as parasolid & Import Diagnostics a couple of times will fix the problem.