From, To

Select the first (from) and second (to) curve or face.

 

Through

Select the curve or face to pass through or you can enter a fillet radius.  A preview echo will be displayed as acceptable through curves and faces are highlighted.

 

 

 

Spine

Specify the drive curve method.

 

• Natural - No drive curve is used. A face similar to a rolling-ball fillet is generated.  No additional input are required.

• Spine - A spine curve will be used as the drive curve. See the Curve option below.

• Parallel - The face is created by moving an infinite plane containing cross-sections of the face parallel to a plane.  See the Plane option below.

 

Curve

Select a curve to be used as the spine. This option is used with the Spine option above.

 

Arc Type

You can specify the arc type that will define the cross-sectional shape of the face.  Select from the following:

 

• Circular Arc - Create the face using circular arc cross-sections.

• Conic Arc - Create the face using conic arc cross-sections.  Use the Conic ratio option below to enter the conic ratio of the cross-sections.

 

Conic ratio

Enter the conic ratio within the range of 0 - 1. (default = 0.5). This option is used with the Conic Arc option above.

 

Sewing

Use these options to modify the supporting faces. Select from the following:

 

• No Action - leave the base faces as is.

• Divide - divide the base faces at the fillet tangents.

• Trim - divide and trim away the base faces at the fillet tangents.

• Sew - divide, trim and sew the base faces with the fillet faces.

 

Capping

Select from the following methods of trimming the ends of the fillets.

 

• Maximal - trim the fillet to the wider pair of face boundaries.

• Minimal - trim the fillet to the narrower pair of face boundaries.

• Tangent Match - create a blended curve matching the tangency of the boundaries of the two supporting faces.

 

 

• You can right-click and selectMake Curve Listto make a parametric list of existing curves to use as input for this command.