WISH- delete/edit fillet of a modified Solid object

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Hello dear Mcneel team,

Thank you for all effort on new features, they are all great.

I work in a furniture company and use fillet edges on solids a lot…..

“Double clicking to the solid and editing the fillet” improvement is very nice and makes thing easier.

However after I changed size of the solid, history is broken and can’t unfillet or change the fillet size. Please see the screen video that I have uploaded.

We have more than 12 seats at the office but only me have upgraded Rhino 7 to Rhino 8. If you bring “edit fillet edge even after changed size of solid” would be so great and I believe everybody would upgraded to Rhino 9.

Thank you in advance.

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sometimes I remove fillet with PushPull :slight_smile: (please see the video)

Could that be possible if there is a “find/analyze fillets” tool which let you select and delete the Fillets. Those fillets are simple ones so I believe it will work.

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Well I think you are considering the idea :slight_smile:

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Hi m -

I’ve put this on the heap as RH-89548 FilletEdge: Edit Modified Object
-wim

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@wim thank you so much, I will be waiting for the result :slight_smile: please make it work :slight_smile:

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This will not happen. It does not make sense to be able to fillet after modifications, because fillets themselves can get modified in such a way that they’re no longer fillets.

Fortunately there are tons of other reasons to upgrade to v9 :wink:

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… that is not the most common scenario.

The most simple case/scenario (which is not strictly the most common) is a fillet surface that touch just 4 faces: 2 tangent and 2 non-tangent.
From the fillet surface it should be possible to “un-fillet” it even without history (or other stored metadata)… detect the 2 tangent surfaces and extend those until they recreate the original sharp edge, then extend the 2 non-tangent faces until they reach the re-created edge.
Doable for sure. Who will do it? … that is a different story.
This function would save so much time in some situation.

… chained fillets are indeed another level of complexity.

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@menno I will definetely upgrade my Rhino, but other People dont care much :slight_smile:

I am thinking “unfilleting simple ones which are created with filletedge” so those fillets can be handled by the Mcneel developers, I dont say it is very easy to do it but I believe it can be done :slight_smile: Only that part could change my colleagues thoughts :grinning_face:

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Let’s start thinking about this stuff after FilletEdge and ExtendSrf are working 100% all the time :wink:

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@Gijs I tried but took too long. Could you record a video incase I might miss the extend suggestion.

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What do you want to know about ExtendSrf? I think the help files are pretty clear about what it does and how it works. As part of the repair toolset, also keep ReplaceEdge in your toolset.

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@Gijs I dont get it, you mean lets explode a filleted simple box and use extendsrf or replaceedge, I tried those but too many clicks and time for unfilleting a simple box which I posted in my first post. Maybe a simple screenvideo could help me :slight_smile:

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I’m not saying that it is easy or fast. What I mean is that, in order for this to be automated, those tools should work flawlessly first. When this gets programmed it needs to work for more than just simple boxes. Extending surfaces is not always straightforward.