Filleting two non intersecting surfaces

SW2006/2007

Quick simple question, is it possible to fillet two surfaces that do
not intersect, seems not possible with SW, unless I am missing
something here.

Thanks,
Brian

 

The only way I'm aware of is to use the Face Fillet option. Be aware
that when you do this, there is an additional control, a pair of arrows.
The arrows need to be pointing to the same side of the faces to be
filleted. If they don't work one way, face them both in the other
direction and try again.

Good luck,

matt

 

Hey Matt,

Yea I tried that, but only seems to work when the surfaces intersect
in some fashion, appreciate the response though.

Brian

 

Its rather hard to give a good response to what you are trying to
accomplish with out being able to see at least a screen shot. The
option for a fillet it to round off corners/edges that are touching.
Other wise it is a completely different function. Something like a
Loft or Sweep with GC's, or maybe even a surface fill.

 

Yes, can you post a screen shot. That will help.

 

Have a look at this:

http://www.cadjunky.com/watch/4740731

 

use Fullscreen mode, otherwise it is hard to see the detail.

 

Matt,

That's what I was trying to do, thanks, have to look into what I am
not doing the same way, does seem I have been in the right direction.

Best,
Brian

 

Basically the issue is/was that there was a larger gap between the
surfaces than the size of fillet I wanted to apply. My thought was
that the surface(s) should extend as needed to fit to the fillet
desired between the surface edges, not so, oh well, something for SW
to work on , Other packages can do this I work with, so I just
assumed the wrong thing, thanks for all the help

Best,
Brian

 

Tell SolidWorks that other packages can do it. It will probably be fixed in
the next big release. Keeping up in the features race is something
SolidWorks does very well. It may not work as well as we would hope, and
they may introduce two new bugs to do it, but they'll keep up with the
competition.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"