When requesting a fillet to be made (either normal or Rule Fillet) is there a way to show the area/edge section of the model that Fusion is having problems creating that fillet? Like highlighting it red or somesuch?
Thanks!
Nick Kloski
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I agree - this would be a useful thing to have. We would very much like to add this as well. It's certainly on our roadmap, but has not yet risen to the top of the priority list. There are other similar things that we would like to do, such as highlight areas where a shell has failed, etc. I did a quick search of the Fusion Idea Station and did not see this idea represented there. Please feel free to submit this as an idea. I'd vote for it 
Jeff
Great done! Please vote for it here:
Also, a request was for an visual example...this is a horribly obvious example, but many times the problem is with one tiny section of an edge, but 99% of the rest of the edge is OK.
Nick Kloski
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Good example. Thanks for creating the idea station item.
Another thing we've talked about that I want to do (my "want to do" list seems endless) is allow for some "partial fillet" results. We've talked about filleting as much as we can, and skipping the problem areas, which could let you go in and manually put a patch or a TSpline surface into those problem areas to kludge a result that, while not mathematically correct, is good enough. We've also talked about just creating the "blend surface" as an option in error cases, because often the failures come not in creating that surface, but in stitching it back into the model. So, with that blend surface as a separate body, again, you could potentially fix it up a bit and manually trim/stitch it back in.
Really, though, I think we just need a good push to make Fusion filleting succeed in more cases.
Jeff
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HOORAY! As of the latest update, this is now implemented! Thanks, Fusion360 dev team!
Nick Kloski
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Ah, I got ahead of myself....the recent improvement is a welcome one, but it does not address my need/request from 2016.
In this image, it is nice to know that one segment/edge is causing the error:
But in the case of this shape, since there is only "one" continuous edge, it is still a mystery where the fillet is failing.
I mean, not a mystery for this object, but you get the idea....maybe this spline object is the exception, because I see that when a tangent chain is selected and a fillet fails, the specific section of the tangent chain causing problems is highlighted (the first image, above)....so maybe this is more of a normal use case than the weird one I initially proposed.
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