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Draft Tool Suggestion

gtprototype
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Draft Tool Suggestion

gtprototype
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I've spent hours recently with the draft tool with my latest project.  I like the tool and it's ease of use however, I found inside radii often collapse on themselves.  I understand why it behaves the way it does although, it would be nice if there were an option to expand inside radii so that the behavior matches that of an outside radii.  In the example below you can see a collapsing inside radius on the left, an outside radius in the middle, and the proposed expanding inside radius on the right.

 

Drafted radii comparisonDrafted radii comparison

 

 

Dale Speakes
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HughesTooling
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not quite what you're after but did you know if you uncheck chain selection and don't select the inside radii they stay a constant radius?

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Mark Hughes
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gtprototype
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@HughesTooling  Thank you, that makes sense and I can't say that I've tried it.  To get those results I would have approached it the same way I did to get the results I really wanted.  I left the inside corners sharp and applied a radius after applying the draft.  In my case I applied a variable radius using the same multiplier that the outside radius calculates.  On a complicated part it's very time consuming.  I hope that the Fusion Team will seriously consider my request.  To include the results that you illustrated maybe they could integrate it with a toggle in the dialog window: constant radius with a select button; inverted radius with a selection button...

Dale Speakes
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