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Sometimes, while filleting you can
see that corners resulting from the operation are not satisfactory. The
new capability "Blend Corners" lets you quickly reshape these
corners. |
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Open the BlendCorner.CATPart document. |
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| Click the Edge Fillet icon
and fillet the four edges as shown using 5mm as the radius value.
This new option is available through the Variable
Radius Fillet command
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Take a closer look at the
resulting corner: the shape style is not
satisfactory. |
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To
round the corner again, double-click the fillet and in the dialog box click the More button to access additional options. |
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Click the Blend corner(s) button to detect the corner to
reshape. In our present example, only one corner is detected. The
application shows it in the geometry area. |
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When the application detects several corners, it is not
possible to reshape just a few of them: all of them will be edited. |
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The setback distance field determines for each edge a free
area measured from the vertex along the edge. In this area, the system
adds material so as to improve the corner shape.
Enter a value in the setback distance field. For example,
13. |
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Click Preview to examine the result. |
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To edit the distance for the top edge, click
"13" and enter "22" as the new value in the Setback
distance field. |
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Repeat the operation for the edge below using the same
distance value. |
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Click OK to
confirm the operation. The corner is reshaped.
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