How to find the correct Fillet Edge that won't fail

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Just wondering if there is an easy way to find the perfect number that will work when doing a fillet on the edge of a tube solid object.

So for example if I have a tube that is 1 inch in diameter and if I divide that number in half and try to apply a .50 fillet it will fail, so I have to keep decreasing that number till I find the number that will work.

Just curious if there is a easy way to find that sweet spot number?

My goal is to create a tube with a round end ( hoping to avoid having to have any flat areas in process )

Thank You,

Kent

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Hi Kent - FilletEdge will fail if it fully ‘consumes’ any input faces that are attached to the edges being filleted. So on a one inch tube, anything less than .5 ought to work - I’d make it 10X file tolerance less than .5,
The handles will show red if they are not going to work, and the tool tries to show you a minimum radius as well as the current-

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-Pascal

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Thanks Pascal,

I also discovered that if I use the Pipe ( with round caps ) to create that tube this also seems to work great.

Can you think of any down sides of going the Pipe route?

Thanks again…

Kent

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Nope - if that handles what you are trying to make, then it should be fine.

-Pascal