Filleting edges of two joined breps

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Hi everyone,
I’ve run into this issue and haven’t been able to find solutions online.

Basically, I have two cylinders at different angles that intersect, as shown in the picture.

cylinders
cylinders927×925 187 KB

I want to fillet the edge generated from the intersection, shown in blue below. to do this, i tried to join the breps (i also tried boolean interection), but unfortunately this doesn’t generate the edge that i want to fillet. How can i do this?

cylinders edge
cylinders edge927×925 195 KB

I’m also attaching the file in case you want to have a look
filleting cylinders.gh (8.4 KB)

thanks in advance for your help!

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Do you want to do this in Grasshopper or Rhino?

In both cases what you need to first notice is that you can’t have a fillet with constant radius. Your fillet is maximal at the lower part of the cylinder and 0 at both ends of your blue line.

From there you can easily come up with a strategy to 1) find the intersection between both sets of cilinders and (2) then trim each of them by the intersection curve, and lastly (3) create a variable fillet

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Canvas at 23;35;20
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filleting cylinders_re.gh (10.7 KB)

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Multipipe?

screenshot_01
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filleting cylinders-bb1.gh (13.7 KB)

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in grasshopper. thanks for the help, i will try that!

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no because i need the pipes to be cylinders, subd doesnt work for this design. thanks anyway!

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amazing thank you!! will give that a try