How can I turn a fillet into a part?

[gunnykiln]

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.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Have you investigated the use of Weld Beads?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

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.

 

[J-C]

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

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SolidWorks 2006 SP5.1 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.1 on WinXP SP2

 

[gunnykiln]

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.

 

[TateJ]

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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[gunnykiln]

It looks like this might work. Thanks much.

 

[SBaugh]

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

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[Rocko]

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