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How can I turn a fillet into a part?

How can I turn a fillet into a part?

How can I turn a fillet into a part?

(OP)
How do I turn a fillet into part?

I have two separate oddly shaped parts in an assembly. The intersection of the two independent parts needs to be filleted. Since you can't fillet in an assy I need to have that fillet as a piece of one of the parts or a completely separate part that I can import into one of the parts. I did a join just to create the fillet, but now I need to somehow dissolve the association of the fillet with one of the parts and still keep its shape so that it can be become a piece of part A without any reference to part B. How do I do this? I should mention it would take me many, many hours to the shape of this fillet with lofts.

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

Have you investigated the use of Weld Beads?

cheers

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

Could you create a new part in the assy, create surfaces from the existing faces; then use the fillet tool on the surfaces.
Once you have the fillet surface you should be able to create a solid.

cheers

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

An option is to open the part that you want to have the fillet geometry, then "Insert//Part" and position the second part where needed, then build your fillet geometry around it.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.1 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.1 on WinXP SP2

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

(OP)
Thanks for the suggestions. The part I am trying to make is the intersection of a aircraft engine nacelle to a wing. So the weld bead won't work. The nacelle skin will have to have the fillet shape molded into it so that when it is installed it is a smooth aerodynamic transition to the wing.

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?



I did it pretty much the way CBL just suggested.
It was a neat little exercise that made me feel good about myself.


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FAQ376

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

(OP)
It looks like this might work. Thanks much.

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

Why don't you delete all the surfaces around the fillet, then Thicken the fillet and save it off as a new name?

3 steps

1) make fillet
2) Delete surrounding surfaces
3) Thicken surface

And you do it all in a part.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP pc2
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: How can I turn a fillet into a part?

This is why I like this forum so much. You can get alot of good answers to real world problems. Good job guys.

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