Analyzing Fillets and Rounds of a 3D Shape

You can detect rounds and fillets by setting single radius values.

1. Click Part Analysis in the Part Design Feature Recognition toolbar.

   The Part Analysis dialog box appears.

   It is divided into two areas: the left one is dedicated to rounds analysis, the right one to fillets analysis.

   
   
   

2. Select Body.1 as the body of which fillets and rounds you want to see. You can select it either by clicking on a node of the specification tree, or by selecting one of its face, edge or vertex in the geometry area. Note that only one body can be analyzed at a time.

   Body.1 is now displayed in the Body to analyze box.

3. You are going to detect the number of rounds and fillets which radius value is 8mm in your 3D shape. For that, first you need to add colorization rules . At the bottom of the Colorization rules frame, there is a rule you can define and then add. For the single value rule, keep the rule type option as Single.

   
   
   

   To the left of Single, click the color combo box.

   A list appears containing:

   
   
   • a blank color box
   • a list of default colors from the color palette, ready for use
   • the More Colors... option

4. For example select the blue color. This is the color chosen for showing all rounds of the 3D shape with 0mm as radius value.

   The selected color is now displayed in the box in the combo box. Pointing the cursor over the combo box displays the name of the selected color.

5. Enter 8 in the radius box next to the Singlecombo box.

6. Click Add to validate and add the rule.

   The Rounds frame now looks like this:

   
   
   

   Note that:

   The rules will be added in the order of sorting. So even if you change the radius value for the rule, it may get rearranged in the sorting order.

   
   
   • The rule can be deactivated by setting its color as Automatic.
   • All colorization rules and colors for other options are saved (only when you click OK to close the dialog box) and are restored when you launch the capability again.

7. Repeat the previous operations for fillets, just choose a distinct color to identify them. Red, for example.

   The Fillets frame now looks like this:

   
   
   

8. Set the yellow color as the background color. This means that all the faces of the selected body that do not follow any rule are colored in yellow.

   
   
   

9. Once done, click OK to compute the results.

   An informative window appears, detailing the number and the composition of detected rounds and fillets.

10. Click OK to close the informative window.

    The result now appears. 8 rounds identified by the blue color and 5 fillets identified by the red color, which radius values are 8mm were recognized.

    
    
    

You can detect rounds and fillets by specifying ranges of radius values using the Range option in the Part Analysis dialog box.

1. Click Part Analysis again.

   The Part Analysis dialog box appears. You can notice that the values and colors defined in the previous steps are still displayed in the dialog box.

2. To colorize rounds (or fillets) as per range of radius value, you need to add colorization rules of the range type: to do this, you just need to set Range.

   The second radius box is then activated as shown below:
   
   

3. Similarly to defining single values, set a color for this rule and define the range of radius values in the two spinners available next to the Rangebox.

   Range type rule means, fillets/rounds within that range are colored with that rule. For example set the brown color and 5mm and 7mm as the values defining the range.

4. Click Add to validate the rule.

   The dialog box must look like this:
   
   

5. Once done, click OK to compute the results and close the dialog box.

6. If you wish to define ranges of values for recognizing fillets, just repeat the same previous steps, paying attention to defining distinct colors.