Okay, -totally new user. I thought this would be easy after 15 years experience with PTC Creo and its predecessors but it has been painful. I must have 20+ hours in 3 or 4 attempts to create this part. So, my latest problem is that, after creating fillets around the inside intersections of the web with the bosses by selecting the 12 edges, I can't do the same on the outside wall. I can do a few, selecting edges individually or in pairs but then it gives me "failed to construct fillet" or something to that effect and the whole pad disappears or appears with a sideways cut in the boss I was attempting to fillet. All the tutorial videos I find for fillets only demonstrate on a simple block model so they are of no help. What am I doing wrong?
Ultimately, I am going to draft this puppy and I already read that I should have drafted first so I will go back and do that but in the meantime I need to figure the fillet thing out before I invest more time in the part. I will attempt to attach the file.
trouble with fillets
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Re: trouble with fillets
With all these construction circles you probably had some partially redundant constraints of which parts got silently removed, I didn't nail it down. Instead I constrained it in a way I would do it, and then the fillets work.
If you are interested in finding the error, you can remove the constraints one by one and verify after each deletion that the numboer of degrees of freedom rises in the expected way:
Coincidence 2
Equality 1
Point-on-object 1
Diameter 1.
If you are interested in finding the error, you can remove the constraints one by one and verify after each deletion that the numboer of degrees of freedom rises in the expected way:
Coincidence 2
Equality 1
Point-on-object 1
Diameter 1.
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Re: trouble with fillets
For some reason your sketch is slightly broken. I have not figured out just what is wrong, but the pad created from the sketch is invalid. One of the external bosses does not have a wall. To check the pad switch to the Part WB and select "Check Geometry" from the Part menu.
I took out all the construction geometry (most of which I do not understand), and then the sketch, pad, and fillets worked correctly.
Fillets are one of the weak areas in FreeCAD. In this case the best thing would be to make the fillets in the sketch. Of course you probably plan to continue with a more complex model, so working in the sketch may not be possible.
Gene
I took out all the construction geometry (most of which I do not understand), and then the sketch, pad, and fillets worked correctly.
Fillets are one of the weak areas in FreeCAD. In this case the best thing would be to make the fillets in the sketch. Of course you probably plan to continue with a more complex model, so working in the sketch may not be possible.
Gene
Re: trouble with fillets
I was on the wrong track - and Gene probably too: If you do a full recompute the missing wall appears and I can create all other fillets in one go.
Nevertheless I think that the sketching should be improved.
Nevertheless I think that the sketching should be improved.
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Re: trouble with fillets
Select all edges in one and done
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