Creating an Edge Fillet (as a Local Modifier)

You can create a fillet with a radius constant along the edge.

The Edge Fillet, local modifier feature alters the sharpness and shape of an edge, rounding part edges and providing smooth transitions between the faces and features. In other words, it creates curved face of a constant radius that is tangent to, and that joins, two surfaces.

Related Topics
More about Edge Fillets as Local Modifiers
Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context

  1. Click Edge Fillet, local modifier .

    The Edge Fillet Definition dialog box appears.



    Important: Two edge fillet capabilities are available in Functional Modeling Part. Depending on your needs you will use them for achieving these results:
    • Edge Fillet, local modifier lets you add fillets on features intrinsically. You will use it most of the time in that way and we recommend you to use it because of its robustness.
    • Edge Fillet, local modifier lets you add fillets as feature modifiers. This is illustrated in the scenario below.
    • Part Design Edge Fillet lets you fillet functional solids. You will use it once the 3D shape is almost complete.

  2. Select the edge as shown as the edge for which you want to create a fillet.



    When selecting edges or faces, ensure that they are valid. For more information, refer to More about Edge Fillets as Local Modifiers .

    The selected edge is now displayed in red. The name of the support element is displayed in the dialog box.

    You can select faces as well: all the edges bordering the selected face are then filleted.

    Tip: If you select several edges, the objects to fillet box displays the number of selected edges. To act on this selection, just click to display the Fillet objects dialog box that allows you to:
    • view the selected elements
    • remove any element clicking the Remove button
    • replace any element using the Replace button and selecting a new one in the geometry or the specification tree.

  3. For the purpose of our scenario, set Tangency.

    The preview clearly shows that the whole edge will be filleted.

  4. Enter 7mm as the new radius value.

    The radius value is updated in the geometry area.

  5. Click OK to confirm and create the fillet.

    EdgeFillet1.X is added to the specification tree in the Solid Functional Set.X node.