I can't seem to be able to fillet the edges of my shape. Can someone help me do it/ explain how i could do it?

[sarapanozzosoardi]

Hello,
I have tried to fillet the edges altogether as well as separately, but nothing seems to work. It deleted parts of it and turns the geometric shape into a snowflake-like shape. I’m pretty sure that it’s because of the abstract polygons, edges and bends, but I can’t even us the fillet tools on a small simple section. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

abstract rock.3dm (4.0 MB)

[DiegoKrause]

what are you going to do with the file? I mean if it’s for render, you can fake the fillets. if it’s for 3dprinting I think you could convert it to a dense mesh and then smooth it a little.

[sarapanozzosoardi]

Thank you for such a quick response!
At the moment I only need to use it as a render. I’m new to Rhino, so could you explain to me what you mean by “faking the fillets”?

[DiegoKrause]

select the object and from the side panel you have the Edge softening option
try some values to avoid some issues

issues like this:

is only for visualization and if you have too many objects it could slow down the workflow a lot.
to solve that you can use ExtractRenderMesh to have only the softened mesh of each object

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Sara -
An alternative could be to use the Rhino 7 QuadRemesh command to create a dense but soft mesh version.

-wim