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Combining fillet and chamfer to facilitate 3D printing of part
no_thanks454
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I have reverse-engineered a part that I'd like to 3D print. To make it look somewhat like the original, I want to have a fairly large (10mm radius) fillet on the edges of the bottom. The bottom will also be on the print bed. However, most FDM 3D printers cannot handle overhangs of more than 70 to 80 degrees. Therefore, I would like the bottom part of the fillet to be a 70 degree chamfer, until the angle of the fillet becomes less than 70 degrees and it can continue as a fillet.
I managed to get this partially working, but only with a tiny chamfer and tiny fillet:
How can I do this in a nice way with the large fillet? Thanks!
Answers
not sure what exactly you aren’t able to do but you can apply a fillet to a chamfer edge if that’s what your after
He doesn't want the fillet to end tangent with the base face (printbed). Instead he wants a small chamfer-like face to extent tangentially from the fillet at say 70° or whatever overhang angle his printer can do.