- Surface fillets operate much in the same way as
regular fillets do, with a few more options
to make them very powerful.
If I go up to my surfacing toolbar
and go over to fillets,
I can see I've got my standard different types
like I do normally,
which is constant size, variable size, face fillet,
or a full round fillet.
Now I can choose individual edges to fillet,
as well as adding in some different parameters.
So I can adjust the radius itself,
and I can also change the profile.
By default using a circular profile,
but I also have the option to use this conic row,
as well as a conic radius.
And if you choose those it gives you the option to
type in that radius or whatever that row value is,
so pretty cool things you can do there
that you can't normally do.
Setback parameters allows you to adjust the look
and feel and distance of that fillet,
as well as these other options here,
that allows us to either keep edges
or keep surfaces while we're filleting them.
So a couple options you can turn on or off,
if you want to.
The basics though,
if I just want to go ahead and choose an edge
it will give me a preview of what's going to happen here,
it's going to put a nice little radius around that.
Click on okay.
And that was that conic row.
If you want to go back and change that it is a feature,
so I can go back and change this back to circular.
It's going to change it slightly and there it is.
Now again I can fillet all types of different surfaces
and edges right here in the corners
and bring it back, okay,
and there's my fillet.
So it's going to adjust these as well,
a little bit as we're filleting.
The cool thing about fillets as well is if you look on the
other side, it does exactly the same thing
on the inside because it's again all surfaces are just
paper thin, there's no volume to them at all,
so you're getting both the inside and the outside fillets
at the exact same time,
whenever you're doing that.
So sometimes you can even convert individual faces
off on a solid part to surfaces
and then fillet them to give it a little bit more of
these powerful techniques inside of filleting.
And you can convert it back into a solid layer.
So there's a couple different cool techniques you can use
with the fillet command.
Overall it works pretty much exactly the same as
a regular solid fillet,
with a few more options to make it just that
much more powerful.