Hi, Is it true that Solidworks has better filleting tools? Filleting complex surfaces has much pain. It usually fails. What priveleges does Rhino have over Solidworks?

[image] eobet: [image] it is a known limitation that rhinos filletEdge has a problem, if a Face has to be modified / trimmed, that is not connected to the initial edge that got choosen. I called it “surface near edge” - see also: [image] Fillet fails examples 2023-03 …

For some reason the distance between the surface edges at the end of the video was not perfect 0,0000000. Prior making the video I made a quick try and the distance was perfect. Maybe during the next try I did some wrong splitting of the fillet surfaces with their isocurves slightly off the proper p…

[image] Tom_P: if a Face has to be modified / trimmed, that is not connected to the initial edge that got choosen. I called it “surface near edge” I’m not sure if it’s distilled down to, or on a list yet, but I hope so – if not, this is a really good way of putting the info. :beers:

[image] Tom_P: the challenge is from Mitch Is there a link to his challenges? :beers: I’d like to check them out. :sunglasses: I’m not sure if I came across them yet… I see some data here on it but no sign of original post by Mitch? Advanced Filleting [McNeel Wiki]

Just wanted to point something out to everyone. Solidworks has 100% Surface modeling like Rhino. This screen shot shows two models with the exact same fillet done to both the Surface and Solid body. [SW] Ok now back to our regularly scheduled programming… aka why hasn’t Rhino’s filleting gotten t…

The highlights of the patch surface don’t look right (at least on this picture). Can you share the model to check it in Rhino?

fillet compare R and F v2.step (199.8 KB) Can’t share Fusion native .f3d format on this forum.

tbh, I find that solution horrible. Also it is inaccurate: [image]

I checked the quality, and I agree. But in my case, most of the time this is feasible. I hope there is a choice in which I can choose the mediocre quality at this level for the sake of time. Here @ Rhino_Bulgaria took minutes to clean this. It’s just too unrealistic. Manual fillets in Rhino 7 - Yo…

Why does Rhino have lots of issues in filleting complex surfaces while Solidworks usually fillets easily?

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Quan_Li (Quan Li) April 9, 2023, 10:09am 138

This is a fillet done in Fusion 360. Just take seconds.
Rhino fillet in this situation is painstaking.

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Why does Rhino have lots of issues in filleting complex surfaces while Solidworks usually fillets easily?

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