There's probably a clearer way to define this... but here goes:
I am creating a wheel from a sketch.
I want to create a smooth rounded shape, much like a rollerblade/luggage wheel.
However, the only option I have in the extrusion feature is nothing but a taper angle, which is far too sharp.
Does anyone know what tools I can use to achieve this? I'm sure it's somewhere in the modify menu, but I can't seem to figure it out. Probably Fillet? But it doesn't seem to give the desired shape...
I know of the revolve tool, but unfortunately I am unable to apply it, mostly because my design follows a sketch of four wheels connected by specific dimensions.
So I think the only solution I have now is to use the above sketch.
I suppose I can use the Revolve tool by creating four planes to sketch on, but it seems like a complex task to do so I am fairly hesitant to do it.
Do you have any alternative methods?
You only model one wheel, then create copies of it. If they are identical then use Copy/Paste. If they have different features, then use Copy/Paste New. Use joints to position them relative to each other.
ETFrench
From tinkering around, it turns out that I could do the following with my existing sketches!
All this time I thought that fillets can only be applied to edges, but it turns out to work really well with faces as well!
It's a lot less elegant than the solution you suggested... but I'd like to get away with the same result but with less work if I can 😛
Still though, thanks again for your advice! I'll need to make different wheel configs so I'll likely use your advice to produce those instead.
