Fit fillet - principal workflow unclear

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 From:  Lara (MALA)
5272.1 
Hi,
I want to round edges of a cube with the "fit fillet" tool.
I selected all edges and now I don´t know how to bring the tool to influence the edges to round them.
I placed 10 in the dialog for the diameter and clicked done - nothing happens. Then I tried to initialize the operation by clicking (confusionally) in the viewport and sometimes there is an operation sometimes not.
In the german documentation I did read the fit fillet section but there is nothing about its workflow.
Tipps would be great.

Bye Mala

I´ve got it. The fit fillet diameter was to high for the object.

EDITED: 22 Jul 2012 by MALA

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 From:  Michael Gibson
5272.2 In reply to 5272.1 
Hi Mala, sounds like you have it figure out now - yes if you give fillet a radius that is too large for it to fit in the area of your model it will just not do anything.

Sometimes especially when you have surfaces at a shallow angle the fillet can eat up quite a bit of space and so it can be a good idea to use a smaller and smaller radius (like keep halving the value) until you see what can actually fit in.

When you are at the radius stage you can either enter in a radius by typing it in (you can actually just start typing numbers immediately, you don't actually need to click on the radius field first, when you type numbers they go into the first numeric field for a command automatically) or by picking 2 points inside the viewport. If you use the pick 2 points method the distance between those 2 points will be used as the radius.

- Michael
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