SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part II: Building Intelligence into Your Parts

Applying a full round fillet

The full round fillet is very useful in many situations. In fact, it may actually work in situations

where you would not expect it to. It does require quite a bit of effort to accomplish the selection,

but it compensates by enabling you to avoid alternate fillet techniques.

To create a full round fillet, you have to select three sets of faces. Usually one face in each set is

sufficient. The fillet is tangent to all three sets of faces, but the middle set is on the end and the face

is completely eliminated. Figure 7.51 shows several applications of the full round fillet. Notice that

it is not limited to faces of a square block, but also propagates around tangent entities and can cre-

ate a variable radius fillet over irregular lofted geometry.

FIGURE 7.51

A full round fillet