There's also an example here of using this kind of technique for making a local ridge feature in the middle of an existing surface but connecting smoothly to the main surface:

http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7516.11

- Michael

I have remade the video for be sure! :)

As I said previously the crucial point is minute 0.50...

so no problem! :)

Hello and thanks to eyeryone who has replied and kindly speant time and effort helping me!!!!
I came here to post more but saw that there are new posts lol I will read them after I post...thanks.

I have 5 models in the new attached scene in a row, from right to left

1A- Without any fillet

1B- Fillet of .02 on inside and outside. Was not able to apply inside and outside fillet at the same time to do any variable fillet testing. One after the other only. Sometimes it does not even apply at all.

1C- Variable fillet of .02 going to .3 ( Inside only)

1D- Variable fillet of .02 to .3 on the outside (Outside only)
1D might be the most usable as things stand.

*** 2A- Has brand new geometry in the detail region and on this I am not able to apply any kind of fillet at all!!! Could someone please tell me why I can't apply even .02 fillet on the blue model? What is defective on it compared to the green model?

Thank you very much :-)

Does these 5 models are strictly the same ? (not yet examined)

Ps why do not use the grid and don't float in the free 3D space? :)
Aligned to some axis on the ground for example...
and some times it's also dangerous to be faraway the origine for dark questions of internal decimal calculus...

...and if you don't want see axe, grid, you can hide them in the options! :)
(but please put them on it before :)

>> Does these 5 models are strictly the same ? (not yet examined)

The 5th BLUE one is different in that the cut detail area is done new.

Sorry about not aligning it.

Hi Curious,

> *** 2A- Has brand new geometry in the detail region and on this I am not able to apply any kind of fillet at
> all!!! Could someone please tell me why I can't apply even .02 fillet on the blue model? What is defective
> on it compared to the green model?

Well one problem is it's not very good quality surface geometry especially at the pointy skinny spots which are already difficult things to fillet.

For example this pointy part here:


That is a stressed surface with one side of it collapsed down to a single point. The surface has a structure like this:



The problem with that is that NURBS surfaces are inherently 4-sided things. To get a 3 sided shape it is possible to squash one edge down to a point but it's generally good to avoid that when possible. It's ok when it's the pole of a sphere or a cone or surface of revolution but when you have a shape that is coming from a 2D profile from one direction like you have here the best quality surface is going to be an extrusion that is trimmed.

So good quality geometry for that kind of shape should look like this:


The underlying surface is an extrusion and the pointy areas are formed by areas of the extrude being trimmed or booleaned.

- Michael

Hi Curious,

re:
> *** 2A- Has brand new geometry in the detail region and on this I am not able to apply any kind
> of fillet at all!!! Could someone please tell me why I can't apply even .02 fillet on the blue model?
> What is defective on it compared to the green model?

I've attached a version of this with simplified extrusion geometry like described above and this should have a better chance at being filleted although it's still a difficult case.

But if you select this you should be able to get a fillet although you can see the juncture at the sharp points is a little weird:





- Michael

Thanks Michael for all your explanations. I might come back with some follow up questions.
Either way you are amazing!!!!! Thank you and the community.