Filleting two non intersecting surfaces

The only way I'm aware of is to use the Face Fillet option. Be aware that when you do this, there is an additional control, a pair of arrows. The arrows need to be pointing to the same side of the faces to be filleted. If they don't work one way, face them both in the other direction and try again.

Good luck,

matt

Hey Matt,

Yea I tried that, but only seems to work when the surfaces intersect in some fashion, appreciate the response though.

Brian

Its rather hard to give a good response to what you are trying to accomplish with out being able to see at least a screen shot. The option for a fillet it to round off corners/edges that are touching. Other wise it is a completely different function. Something like a Loft or Sweep with GC's, or maybe even a surface fill.

Yes, can you post a screen shot. That will help.

Have a look at this:

use Fullscreen mode, otherwise it is hard to see the detail.

Matt,

That's what I was trying to do, thanks, have to look into what I am not doing the same way, does seem I have been in the right direction.

Best, Brian

Basically the issue is/was that there was a larger gap between the surfaces than the size of fillet I wanted to apply. My thought was that the surface(s) should extend as needed to fit to the fillet desired between the surface edges, not so, oh well, something for SW to work on :P, Other packages can do this I work with, so I just assumed the wrong thing, thanks for all the help

Best, Brian

Tell SolidWorks that other packages can do it. It will probably be fixed in the next big release. Keeping up in the features race is something SolidWorks does very well. It may not work as well as we would hope, and they may introduce two new bugs to do it, but they'll keep up with the competition.

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