Hi Warren,

> Actually, you know what? Maybe the problems I'm having are inherent to how I'm building things.
> I'm, by force of habit, building the larger shapes and then trying to fillet everything at the end
> that needs it. Is it better to fillet as I go along? Maybe that's less stress on the calculation engine?

Well, it sort of depends - ideally you would actually wait until the end like you have been doing, so that's not "wrong" to do that.

But if you have the possibility to reduce edge topology complexity (reduce the number of edges all colliding at any one single point), or smooth out a broad area of the model with a larger fillet or sometimes by just incorporating some rounded shapes into the initial profiles, it can be good to do that so that you avoid getting into difficult to handle fillets later on. That kind of takes some experience to sort of proactively plan for filleting in advance like that.

- Michael