Hi ditto,

> Stupid question: Is there such a thing possible as 'filleting by profile' ?

Not really, because fillets don't have just one single fixed profile curve, they make an arc of a particular radius but the arc will be longer or shorter depending on the angle of how the surfaces are meeting.

See here for a bit more description on that:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=2457.2

So their profiles are something more that's "generated" and adapts to surrounding geometry not quite something that's easily done as a totally fixed drawn shape.


Also in addition to that juncture areas where multiple fillets come together and collide into one another don't really lend themselves to custom profiles very well either. So a "custom profile" filleter would probably only really work in certain limited circumstances, like surfaces being filleted at 90 degree angles to one another, and only 2 fillets coming together at any one point with a miter cut between them.


You can do something like use Sweep to make a profile run along an edge of a solid, and it can do mitered corners as well, but it's somewhat different from filleting.

- Michael