fillet radius help needed....badly :(

[MicroJ]

Lengthy set-up for my problem following !

I have a customer-supplied design that cannot be altered and they will not supply their CAD model for programming purposes. To simply things imagine this:

Create a 1 x 1 x 1 extruded solid in Solidworks. Next, revolve a 1.80" circle in the center of one of the faces (forms a "bowl" in the faces). This leaves 4 "peaks" and 4 sharp, curved edges. Now, create a plane .200" from the face opposite the spherical face (the .200" distance is going towards the spherical face).

What our customer wants is a fillet radius all the way around the spherical edges that is constantly tangent to that .200" plane on one end and is always tangent to the spherical surface on the opposite end. I cannot figure out how to do this as its a constantly variable radius on the spherical side and must be bound on the opposite end to that .200 plane.

Our customer uses UG and they showed me their model, but as stated above, were unwilling to give me their model and the particular engineer I am dealing with didn't create the model and has no insight on how it was done.

any thoughts on doing this in SW2004 sp4.1 ?

 

[aamoroso]

1.Create a 1 x 1 x 1 extruded solid in Solidworks. (No problem with that.)

2. Next, revolve a 1.80" circle in the center of one of the faces (forms a "bowl" in the faces). This leaves 4 "peaks" and 4 sharp, curved edges.

Lost Me, Revolve a Cut, Revolve an Extruded, forms a bowl???? The inside of a bowl, the outside, very confused ? The center of one of the faces, on which plane???

You need to be more specific (at least for me) maybe someone else can decipher this.

 

[TheTick]

Picture?

 

[Theophilus]

Check out hold lines for boundaries in your radius. Help should have details on how to do it. You might need to split your four surfaces around your cube (split line) to create the boundaries for your radius. Then face blend or some other such with the planar lines on each of the four sides of your cube as hold lines for your radius.

This should work fine if I understand what you're looking for. There are also other varieties of fillets in case that doesn't work. Check them all out in the Help files.




Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

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