to fillet or not to fillet...that is the question

 From:  Michael Gibson
4296.5 In reply to 4296.1 
By the way, one thing that can be nice with a grip like this is to draw a slightly curved path in the Top view like this:



And then do another similar shaped one in the side view, so that they cross each other like so:



Then you can select one, and run the Construct > Sweep command and select the other one as the path, to make a kind of shallowly rounded surface like this:



That can then be mirrored and placed around a thicker extrusion part like this:



Then use a boolean to cut the extrusion by those curved surfaces, that will slice it up into pieces, and you can delete these pieces:




To get this kind of a result where there is a bit of a contour to the sides of the grip instead of it being totally flat like a regular extrusion will be:



- Michael