Filleting Tangent Surfaces

[lander (CAD CAM CNC)]

@Alan_Farkas

Thanks so much for this script! I’d like to request/suggest a couple options (or alternative versions) that I don’t think anyone’s asked for yet

@Alan_Farkas

Again, such a great script, and hopes these suggestions are helpful.

Ikr, I’m still waiting for him to make an Eto Framewrork. Also waiting for @theoutside , I think, to make one for the ‘pipe trim trick’ too

Fillet edging of surfaces with different angles

Pipe trim is going to be your friend See video- [Rhino 7 - Pipe trim trick]

@jim

As I see it, the main problem with the FilletSrf command is that it takes a lot of the user’s time to make the fillets because the user has to tell Rhino where to put each and every fillet. This is completely unnecessary when filleting tangent surfaces because once the user has made one fillet all the others are completely defined. The script can make 50 tangent fillets in under a second. The purpose of the script is to automate the most time consuming parts of using filletsrf. The script is just telling Rhino where to make the fillets so that the user doesn’t have to.

You’d think the devs would have done this already so you wouldn’t of had to

@jim

The real problem is not the singularity itself, but that Rhino (more often than not) botches the construction of the fillet at a singularity. This is a bug that McNeel should fix.

I agree.

@jim

I have given it some thought and it may even happen some day if I find the time and work out the logistics of making it very reliable and easy to use.

I have written code that does do the trimming and joining, but its not 100% reliable.

Waiting for the ‘buy now’ button for the super awesome fillet tool

@jim

An automated process that saves only a little time when it works and wastes a lot of time when it fails is not worth using. Rhino already has more than its share of automation that works like that.

Yeah, and in V8 now some simple things that used to be stable are now kinda buggy, like the hover tips, and the grid graphic overlay…