Hi Michael,

I think that it's inappropriate to keep the radius distance between each calling the Fillet command (and maybe Chamfer, Offset, Shell... too).
For instance, I select some solid and fillet its edges with r = 2. Then I select something else and want to fillet with r = 0.5. ...whoops... MoI uselessly performs a computation (or even freezes with complex shapes) for last input, i.e. r = 2, before I'm able to change the radius to r = 0.5. (Note that the exactly value of r is not critical, it is only for the illustration).
I suggest,
(1) not performing a computation until the 'done' button is clicked or
(2) adding a 'preview' button or
(3) not retaining last input or
(4) ...



Thanks
Petr

For the critical filets, is not more tricky to draw by "hand" the profil and sweep it along curves wished? :)

Hi Petr, yes this is a problem.

The way I have been planning to solve it is with:

4) Perform the fillet calculation in the background and automatically cancel it and start a new calculation if a new radius has been entered.

Which has the only problem that it is quite difficult to achieve... :) However, I have been planning on this since there really needs to be a way to cancel long operations in general anyway even separate from this particular issue.

I've tried really hard not to have things like "preview" buttons, I really prefer to just do the preview automatically.

- Michael

> For the critical filets, is not more tricky to draw by "hand" the
> profil and sweep it along curves wished? :)

Hi Pilou, it is certainly possible to generate some fillets in this way, but you'll also have quite a bit of work to do to fill in corners and handle intersections between the different fillets.

But that's actually one of the nice things about a "hybrid" modeling system like MoI (where you can work on solids or also on individual surfaces and join them together later) - that you can get in there and construct a fillet manually in some cases where an automatic solver isn't able to handle it.

It is not exactly easy to do though.

- Michael

Sure and perfection is not for this world :D