How does a this NEWBIE fillet only a portion of an edge in SW?

I'm fairly new to SW and I think I have a "fairly" good grasp of the basics
but ... I'm trying to fillet an edge, but not the entire edge. I want to
start the fillet on an edge in about 2" & then end the fillet about 2" from
the other end of the same edge. I'm sure this must be an easy task for
someone with a little more expeience than myself. HELP!

Norm

 

Norm,


It depends on how you want the fillet to look. Can you use a variable radius
fillet? Move the little internal divider dots to the right spots and set the
radius to 0 on the outside parts of the edge, ramp to the radius you want
and then ramp down on the other end. You'll probably need to add a couple of
more divider dots, which I've forgotten how to do, but check the help for
the variable radius fillet.

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

 

Hi Jerry,
I don't want to gradually move into the fillet. I want to move in 2" from
the end of the part and go directly to a .250" fillet. Something like you
wold see on a piece of wood where someone would start a fillet cut with a
"router" 2 inches from the end of the piece of wood.

 

I would do this with a cut feature.
- Create start and end plane
- Create on start plane the fillet profile
- Cut to end plane

Johnny

 

Then if you need to simulate a router or ball-end cutter: sketch a
semicircle on the end planes of the cut feature and revolve a cut to create
the hemispherical

 

Norm.
You can create a feature to do this. I would insert a
workplane/sketchplane offset 2" from the end of the part and sketch on
it a closed profile of the 0.25" fillet then extrude cut in the
direction required.

Eddy

 

Tryied by curiosity, couldn't make it work.

2001+ SP6

 

Doesn't seem to work in 2004 SP3 either. I suppose another way to do it
would be to split the part into two bodies, do the fillet, and then unite
the two bodies again. If your edge shape is simple it would be easier to do
a cut as others suggested.

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

 

Try this.

Make a split line in the location where you want to have the fillet start.
Insert a variable radius fillet and set the end condition(s) (where you want
it to start/stop) to zero. Then tweak the closest percentage mark (to the
end condition) to 99.99% OR 00.01% depending on what end you are at. It
gets you the look you want but is not really a mathmatically true
representation. For that you will have to use some other technique.

Craig

 

WOW...Thanks to all of you for your help. Dale, that's exactly what I was
trying to do. The rest of you gave me just a bit more knowledge of how to
do some other things. I can see this is a great place to look for answers
to questions. Thank again.

Norm