fillet enhancement?

 From:  Michael Gibson
3287.15 In reply to 3287.11 
Hi NightCabbage,

> I was wondering if there could be an addition of a
> "Use 2 distances" for the Fillet tool, exactly the same as
> there currently is with the Chamfer tool?

Well, that's a rather unusual combination for CAD programs.

It's not really clear exactly what the result should be - having 2 distances with a rounded connection would maybe imply some kind of ellipse shape?

But keep in mind that the surfaces being filleted can change in angle to one another and are not necessarily only at a 90 degree angle to each other like a simple ellipse case would be set up for.

I guess it could be theoretically possible to do a "2 distance" rail generation but then use a blended surface generator between them... But that would be pretty unusual, and probably not compatible with corner patch generation that currently exists in the geometry library that MoI uses.

You can get a similar result currently if you do the chamfer, then delete the chamfer and put in a Blend between the exposed edges... Try using that technique.

Filleting is already a shaky enough thing as it is, so it's not really that feasible to have too exotic of combinations and expect for them to do much...

- Michael

EDITED: 4 Feb 2010 by MICHAEL GIBSON