Hi lee, the radio renders turned out great!

The fillet limitation is a bug in the v1 fillet mechanism - this is improved in v2, in the current v2 beta you can go up quite a bit larger, up to 0.7 units.

Your front profile is a bit lumpy:





Those kinds of lumps and bumps tend to make things harder on the filleter - you may be able to get better fillet results if you make your cutting curve a bit more evenly smooth shaped instead of with that lump in it.

- Michael

Just curious.

With the x-ray 3dm file in MoI V2.

When filleting the top edge up to 0.4 was fine, then, when I tried 0.5. the side panel dissapeared?

Brian

Hi Brian, - strange, over here I don't seem to have any problem with radius 0.5 ...

Can you check to make sure you're running the Aug-4 beta and not the Aug-1 version?

- Michael

Michael
2.0.2008.804 Aug 4th?

Brian

And I just repeated the exercise.
File attached.
Brian

@brian
http://moi3d.com/beta.htm

I bought a license and downloaded V2, well worth it. Also messing around with lofting, I mirrored one side so I just fine tune control points on one side.

Pilou
Yes, thats what I am using.
Brian

Update...

The fillet was made from the faces again, I could not get the edge fillet to work.

Hi lee, looks like it is taking shape well there!

Yeah edge fillets can still be rather finicky even with the other improvements that are in v2. It is unfortunately by its nature a difficult area of calculation.

Another thing that can make it fail are areas where 2 edges come together and are very nearly smooth with one another but not quite, like for example a 3 or 4 degree angle difference where the edges meet up.

That makes it try to build a corner connecting piece there and with a small deviation it will be a very tiny corner, those kinds of tiny pieces make things difficult.

The face/face filleter on the other hand does not try to build corner pieces.


Thanks very much for your order, and it definitely looks like you are making great progress there.

- Michael

Thanks! I've learned a lot the past couple weeks using Moi, great software.

here's an update and render of the body: