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Printable Fillets
I made a custom feature to easily implement printable fillets, aka fillets that have a slightly sharper transition to the faces than a standard tangential fillet, to enable more accurate 3D printing. This is my first attempt at something like this, and constructive feedback is very welcome. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/643eceb32d9650249dd16a3e/w/78be64c6d1a48ea091dd93cb/e/16321f49c31ef6b8038a0f53
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Nice job! And welcome to the FS club π
The code looks pretty clean, well documented with comments too.
Feedback: As far as the feature itself goes, it's pretty good. Not sure I would change much.
Something to note, the default Fillet tool can already do conic fillets which will give you the same result i think?
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Thank you for being so gracious while telling me I have recreated an existing feature π. When i started the process I had a rounded chamfer in mind, and then iterated towards the conic radius, forgetting it was easy to implement in other ways. Never mind, good practice!
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All of us FS devs have unintentionally re-created an already existing feature at one point or another. I think I've done it a few times. Its just so hard to find custom features, even for experienced users.
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@janna_deeble685 When I read the thread title I thought you were headed here with it, which might still be a decent custom feature! I used the chamfer to control the max overhang angle, then rounded it off.
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My team would get some use out of a "chamlet" feature. They keep doing the chamfer and fillet step manually and manually playing with the dimensions every time, it should just be one feature.
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I don't know why, but "chamlet" feels like it should be Old Englishβ¦ ππ ππππ ββπππππ
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I would expect something like this for a Chamlet definition:
Overhang angle and Fillet Radius definitionβ¦
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Personally I prefer the cleaner look of a circular profile that gets truncated like @EvanReese's example. In woodworking I think they call it a thumbnail profile? Stacking a fillet and chamfer like the method you show tends to look overly tall to me.
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5 axis 3d printing will fix this. π
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