Quick question on Basic Design Tutorial regarding Fillet Tool

[Anonymous]

Hi,

New to the forum, new to Fusion.  Love the UI so far but I'm having trouble getting the fillet command to work properly on the basic lamp design in the tutorial.

Specifically, in the second tutorial entitled Part Design, step 12 of 18.  I was able to fillet the top edge of the lamp arm appropriately (i.e. rounding the edge off) but the bottom edge refuses to go inward toward the arm.  Instead, it wants to round off the edge by adding material instead of taking it away.  I was unable to find a way to change the fillet direction, and I also tried the chamfer tool to no avail.  A quick search revealed nothing.  I've attached a picture to detail the problem more effectively.

Thanks for the help; I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I'm too new to the program interface to figure it out for myself.

P.S.  Running Fusion on a Mac.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous, welcome to Fusion!  I suspect I know what is going on.  When you created the neck of the lamp, the shape that you created was actually joined to the base of the lamp, so it's now just one body.  That's why you see the "wrong" fillet.

In step 7, when you first start creating the neck, the tutorial says to create a new component and activate it.  I suspect that didn't happen:

Activating this component would have prevented the neck geometry from joining with the base.

Hope this is somewhat clear,

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[Anonymous]

Thank you, Jeff.  I still don't know that I fully understand the true depth of difference between a component and a group/part, but I'm sure that will come with time.  I've been told it's an important concept to grasp, since Fusion treats the two very differently.  Enjoy your Sunday!