Creating Drafted Filleted Pads

You can create a pad while drafting its faces and filleting its edges using the Drafted Filleted Pad command. We recommend you the use of this command to speed up your design.


Before you begin:

To perform this task, create a pad and a profile similar to the features below.

Related Topics
Creating Pads
Creating Edge Fillets
Creating Basic Draft Features
Location of Sketches in the Specification Tree (Hybrid Design)
  1. Select the profile that you want to extrude.



  2. Click Drafted Filleted Pad in the Sketch-Based Features toolbar (Pads sub-toolbar).

    The Drafted Filleted Pad Definition dialog box appears and the application previews the pad to be created.



  3. Enter 30 as the length value.

  4. Selecting a second limit is mandatory. Select Pad1 top face as the second limit.



    Note that planes can define second limits too.

  5. Let's go on with the draft definition. Enter 7 as the draft angle value.

    Drafting faces is optional. If you do not wish to use this capability, just clear the Angle option.

  6. Select Second limit to define the neutral element . So, Pad1 top face is also used as the neutral element.

  7. Enter a radius value for each edge type to define the three fillets.


    • Lateral radius: defines the fillets on vertical edges

    • First limit radius: defines the round corner fillets

    • Second limit radius: defines the filets on the edges of the second limit.

    Filleting edges is optional too. If you do not wish to use this capability, just clear the options.

    Clicking Preview previews the pad, the draft and the fillets and display them in the specification tree. If you have deactivated the draft or fillet options, the draft or the fillets are then displayed as deactivated features in the tree, i.e. with red parentheses.

  8. Click OK to create the features.

    If you look at the specification tree, you will note that you have created:

    • one pad
    • one draft
    • three fillets

    This means that for edition purposes, you need to double-click the appropriate feature. These are the new features: