All right. Now I dumped the whole shell attempt and duplicated the object, scaled it and did a boole. Result looks fine and calculation is way faster than "shell". So on to the next question: how can I bevel the upper edges via "filet" since I havent got continuus edges/splines I could select...

Thanx for your patience with me so far :-)

> So on to the next question: how can I bevel the upper
> edges via "filet" since I havent got continuus edges/splines
> I could select...

Hi Rogurt, I'm not exactly sure wehat you mean by not having "continuous edges" - surely you must have a set of edges that touch each other?

You can select multiple edges to be filleted, you don't only have to select a single edge at a time.

So for example here I've selected 3 different edges at the top of this object:



And then I ran Fillet to make this result:




Edges that are not smooth to one another will have "corner patches" added to them to connect them up.


One thing to be aware of though is that Fillet is also a sensitive command similar in several ways to Offset. In fact a part of the fillet calculation involves generating offset surfaces and intersecting them.

So if you have things like little folded areas or tight bends in your shapes, it is likely to cause a problem with fillet in a similar way it caused problems with offsets.

- Michael

I would also note that in a couple of his questions he is typing "0,2" as a value for his inputs (note the comma)

Is this a typo in the question or is this the value he is trying to fillet??? (It was the same value in the shell question....)

Hi Burr, in some other countries (for example France), the decimal digit separator is the comma character and not the period character like you are used to.

So for example in some countries they write the number "two and a half" in decimal form like this: 2,5


When your regional settings in Windows are set to use the comma character as the decimal separator, then you can enter in values like that into MoI.


See here for more details than you would want to know ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator


- Michael

OIC. Thanks for clarification.