Rounding a mitered edge

Rounding a mitered edge

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Rounding a mitered edge

autodesk_sbc
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Hi, Fusion (and general CAD) n00b trying to learn the ropes. I have a box I'd like to construct with mitered edges, like so:

 

Screenshot 2023-07-11 at 6.47.04 AM.png

 

After creating the mitered edges, I'd like to fillet (round) them over. If I were making this out of wood, I would fasten the edges (let's say with glue), then use a router bit to run along the edge to round it over. 

 

I'm struggling a bit to map how I imagine doing this in the real world with how I should design it in Fusion. When I model the box as above, for example, the Fillet tool does not seem to work as expected (it can't round over two different bodies). 

So then I try modeling the box as one solid body, rounding all the edges as I'd like, then trying to figure out how to miter-cut all the faces; this gets confusing quickly (to that point that I'm sure I'm not doing it right). 

Screenshot 2023-07-11 at 6.53.06 AM.png

 

I'm curious how I should ideally be thinking about this within Fusion's paradigm. I've attached my embarassingly-messy test file here to really out myself as totally incompetent. 🙂

 

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g-andresen
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Hi,

how about this?

 

 

günther

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jhackney1972
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I would use the same method your described you would use in woodworking.  After you have finished your mitered box top, run a 10mm Sweep (Router bit) around the top edges.  I cannot say the result is very pleasing but the result is what you ask for.  Model is attached.

 

Fillet Edge.png

John Hackney, Retired
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autodesk_sbc
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Truly appreciate these responses, it's so helpful to see how others tackle these problems, often in ways I wouldn't have thought to! @g-andresen super interesting and a pleasing result, though I'm hoping to miter through the rounded corner, rather than below it. But this gives me some good insights. @jhackney1972 I think how you're using "sweep" might be the missing ingredient for me (agree this isn't pretty, though I'm hoping to be able to round all edges, rather than just the top ones. But I think this looks like a promising approach. Also, I often have to get all my bad ideas out before I get to the good ones. :)).

 

Thank you!

 

 

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