I have been playing with fillet and chamfer to get rid off sharp edges, but I ended up with some small gaps and weird geometries.
How can I fix them?
I tried to create a patch to fill the gap, but nothing happens. I don't have any idea how to fix the odd geometries. What tool can I use to smooth the edges or make them a single part with a round geometry?
Can you upload the part, it's not going to be easy to help without seeing the model. If you right click the top component in the browser and select Export you can save as an f3d then attach to this thread. Was the part modeled in Fusion or imported.
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Mark Hughes
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The Export has not worked too well did you select the very to of the browser tree, the file name when you selected export.
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The second export worked OK but I can't help. The time line in that component has to be the longest I've seen and the most untidy I can't unpick what you've done, perhaps someone else can help, sorry.
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Not when you get this far, you need to try and keep the model clean and as simple as possible for the fillets to work also leave things like the fillets and engraving until the end of the design. Right at the start of the component you were making tiny mistakes that are like time bombs waiting to go off later in the design.
Take this pocket you used 3 extrusion where you could have used 1 and at the end you left a small surface on one corner, something like that small surface will stop fillets working or make a very untidy fillet.
Another thing to remember is it's easy to go back and edit a feature in the timeline, going through your timeline you moved several faces back and forth and added an extrusion each time, it would have been easy to edit the original extrusion and keep the timeline short so you can keep the design simple.
Take this Edge you move it several times adding extrusion each time, it would have been easier in the long run to edit the original sketch.
Mark
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Maybe use the copy of the design you've uploaded here and go back through the time line and delete a lot of what you'v done and clean up as many of the extensions as you can to try and get a clean model without the fillets and engraving.
When it comes to adding the fillets something I found out recently is you can add fillets of different radii at the same time using Edge sets. If you need to add an edge to a set hold the Ctrl key down and you can select more edges.
One more tip, I noticed that although you've used components you have not activated them while you work on that component. When you create a component activate it every time you work on it. Here's a link to a tips thread on Components.
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