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Chamfer with individual shape?

thburn — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:32:11 GMT

Hi,

I have a cube and a cylinder (in sculpt mode).

Now I want to connect the cylinder (the circle of top face) to the center of one of the faces of the cube. The cylinder has a diameter of 50mm and the face of the cube is squared 70mm x 70mm.

Two questions:

1. What is best practice to connect the cylinder to the face of the cube and get one single body?

2. I want to have a nice transition between the cubes face and the cylinder. Therefore I can use bevel (in sculpt mode).
Bit I don't want to have a bevelled edge between cube and cylinder but a nice rounded transition.

Best would be if I can define a spline and use this spline as shape for the transition similar to the revolve tool.
Can it be done? How?

Thanks a lot!

Re: Chamfer with individual shape?

rishivadher — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:15:16 GMT

Hi thburn
You have to “bridge”, and select the surface of the square and the edges our the cylinder
Our if the cube is and cylinder are solid, and not b-rep, the “loft” between the the surfaces
Best Rishi

Re: Chamfer with individual shape?

thburn — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:03:14 GMT

Hi rishivadher,

thanks for reply, OK but is there a way to influence the roundness of the transition?

I want to get a certain shape based on a spline to get the transition between cylinder and cube smoothed out.

How can I do that?

Re: Chamfer with individual shape?

Oceanconcepts — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:49:51 GMT

It depends somewhat on what you are after. If you are in sculpt using T-Splines (Bridge example) you can add edges to the transition area and use the sculpting tools- Edit Form. That will allow you to be reasonably accurate, but not precise.

Re: Chamfer with individual shape?

rishivadher — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:28:24 GMT

Hi thburn, sorry for the delay on the answer
The answer of Ron is what I had in mind but just now made an example, of adding more faces to the cube and cylinder
You can also exam the curvature in “inspect” to see which works better in each your case.
Best Rishi

Re: Chamfer with individual shape?

thburn — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:19:35 GMT

Hi,

thanks for all who helepd me out!