Filet is dead now... Start drawing OVER?

[AutoDesk99UGT]

OK, so I was drawing a diagram, and it was great... then, I made the mistake of trying to modify it... 

Now, the filet tool can't resolve it, and the awesome message says... it can't resolve it, try removing dimensions... so, I do this..

Out in the middle of nowhere.... Draw a line 20" long  Right angles with another line 24" long.  Hit <esc> to stop drawing them... Now I have 2 lines at right angles...

Select Filet tool... Select one line, select other... Error: Can't resolve.. blah blah useless blah..

WTF is it trying to resolve to get that?

Ok, well, draw a rectangle 20x24... select tool.. select edges top and left... ERROR apparently, too complex to resolve that sucker...

I already deleted my original lines I was trying to re-filet the corner...

Is the answer to go off and start OVER?

I'm doing this TOTALLY independent of the rest of the sketch, not locked to the origin, totally blue...

I created a screen cast, but when I go to it it doesn't do anything so I don't know how to verify that it worked...

[AutoDesk99UGT]

FYI: I went back to a previous saved copy (under another name) before deleting that the corner, I re-deleted it, and redrew it and it worked OK.

Exiting and restarting didn't work.   For Auto-Desk guys, it is in my account, under the 'Kitchen', Island V2.  The other two aren't broken...   You can tell the broken one because the preview looks like random drawings - because the extrude isn't working now that it doesn't have a full face to extrude.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

if needed:

Please share the file. & mark the relevant elements

File > export > save as f3d locally  > attach it to the next post.

günther

[AutoDesk99UGT]

Attached

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Please show a picture or a hand sketch of what your goal is.

günther

[AutoDesk99UGT]

Can you watch the screen cast?  It shows many attempts to make *anything* filet, and always getting an error!

(I'll re-post it here, in case it didn't get attached before... in that cast, you can see *many* attempts to make a filet..

And I even re-draw the rectangle/lines in the cast, so you can tell there is nothing special about them..

On Sketch 6, if for some reason it doesn't open to that....

I even went so far as to draw new lines - There are two lines drawn at 90 degrees to each other, can't filet them - they are not constrained in any way except that both endpoints are connected and they are 90 degrees.

I drew a Rectangle, same problem... What I was trying to do was to make all four corners the same, but something went wanka and it stopped working.

Oh, and yes, I exited and reloaded it... this drawing is just junked now.  I fixed it by starting the process over again...

[AutoDesk99UGT]

Goal:  Take two lines that meet at 90 degrees.

Select the Filet tool, click on one line, click on the other line and not get an error.

[AutoDesk99UGT]

From what I can tell, it didn't attach the screen cast the first time, weird.

I replied above, assuming you were able to see the screen cast...  Sorry if it was a bit snarky...   It should be really obvious what I'm trying to do if you can see the screen cast...

[jeff_strater]

this has nothing directly to do with Fillet.  Your sketch has some degenerate geometry, and that is the underlying problem that is being reported by the solve failure.  Agreed that this is not obvious in any way.  See the screencast below for how to fix it: