Hello everyone,
I have a rather complex model that I'm working on right now and I'm trying to figure out how to fillet a solid body that has several surfaces on it. Because I had to model the shell shape you see in the attached screen shots from a thickened shell surface it has LOTS of faces. Then it's further compounded by having to make some cuts that split other faces into smaller segments as well. In short, there's not a lot of continuous surfaces on this thing.
What I want to do is create a full round fillet on the lip portion of the edge.
If I try to select just the edges I get an error message asking for a smaller radius.
If I try full round and I go ahead and include additional faces below the ones that appear to be too short to work, I'm getting the same error.
Even the simpler edges with a large continuous surface face are failing.
So what I'm wondering is:
1) Is there anyway to loosen up the tolerances for building fillets?
2) In theory is there anyway that I could somehow join or simplify some of the segmented faces together so that it's easier to fillet?
3) Any other fillet settings or other conditions I should be trying to see if I can get this to work?
I can live without having all of this filleted if I have to and just specify the fillet radius on the 2D drawings, but I'd like to represent this in the 3D model too if I can.
The file size is 6.46 MB zipped so it exceeds that attachment limit here. I put it up on an ftp transfer site so if any of you are willing to take a look at it. II can email you a link to it if you PM me your email.
