topic Re: odd fillet situation in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

odd fillet situation

eric_strebel — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:01:10 GMT

I have run into an odd fillet situation with this part.

I am joining a revolved body to an extruded body and get an incomplete fillet, see attached.

I don't think the issue is that one body was revolved and one was extruded.

Basically I get an incomplete fillet.

Fusion is usually pretty good about making fillets, something I rather appreciate, but this one took me a bit by surprise.

Perhaps a bug??

I can share the file if needed.

Re: odd fillet situation

jeff_strater — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:51:14 GMT

Hi Eric, good to hear from you! (though I'd prefer if it were not a bug).

Yes, please send me the design, or share it here if you don't mind. jeff.strater@autodesk.com

Jeff

Re: odd fillet situation

eric_strebel — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:00:41 GMT

You have access, In the Botzen Design Folder, HexaVox v63 the last few operations make that part.

Same build, different part. I was able to power through the last issue. Actually I have a fantastic metal print from shape ways. It's quite the unbelievable part.

See below.

Re: odd fillet situation

jeff_strater — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:53:06 GMT

Wow, that print came out great. Is that really metal? I suspect that it was pretty expensive to print, but it looks great!

Now, for your fillet question. The results, unfortunately are expected. It's because these surfaces (indicated by the red arrows) are not continuous - there is a small face (indicated by the blue arrow) in between.

So, fillet cannot blend the faces that I suspect that you want. If you can figure out some way to get those faces blended, I suspect fillet will work as you expect.

Here's a little video that shows what I found:

Jeff

Re: odd fillet situation

eric_strebel — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:59:02 GMT

@jeff_strater I see what is going on here. Not an easy part to build with a revolve and an extrude to get them to meet correct. I will probably have to loft a few surfaces somewhere.

Thanks for investigating. Much appreciated.

As for the part. Yes, it's metal! it's a pretty sweet part. The cost was just over $300. Not to bad considering what you get. A hollow metal part that is not manufacturable in any other way.

Thanks again.