Improved Fillet Tool

[eric.rktek]

It would be great if the fillet tool could be improved. I use it a lot when drawing polylines for parking lots in site plans.

It would be great if it had the power to see beyond or be able to override the consecutive point issue that plagues it now. I spend a lot of time removing vertexes in my shapes to be able to use it.

The other big improvement would be to have it the fillet tool be able to fillet a line to an arc within the polyline shape. I usually end up wasting time clipping circles and squares to add in, etc to get the shape I need.

[propstuff]

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Originally posted by eric.rktek:

The other big improvement would be to have it the fillet tool be able to fillet a line to an arc within the polyline shape. I usually end up wasting time clipping circles and squares to add in, etc to get the shape I need.

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Indeed!

I was doing this just the other day. Drawing a 3 sided planting bed; 2 straight sides at right angles and the 3rd "hypotenuse" an arc.

The polyline was simple, and all I wanted to do was to radius the 3 corners, but the fillet tool completely smashed the arc section.

Please fix

cheers

[Kaare Baekgaard]

I agree.

Actually, I have noticed, that it is often easier to fillet extrudes (& sweeps) after the extrusion, than filleting the 2D shape, it contains.

[DDDesign]

I also agree.

Its dissapointing that the fillet tool doesn't work with seemingly simple shapes once they contain an arc.

[mike m oz]

Eric

- the 2D reshape tool has options to change any vertice from a corner point to a bezier, cubic spline or arc. You can also change it back to a corner point again.

- You will find it easier if you draw your base shape as a polygon with corner points, and then modify the vertices.

(Be mindful that a fillet or chamfer cannot be larger than the polygon side it is applied to.)

DDDesign, try the following:

- Group your object.

- Edit the Group and decompose the object.

- Apply your fillets and then recompose it.

- Exit the group and ungroup your object.

[propstuff]

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Originally posted by mike m oz:

Eric

- the 2D reshape tool has options to change any vertice from a corner point to a bezier, cubic spline or arc. You can also change it back to a corner point again.

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Mike,

this is an example of where it doesn't work.

If you draw the "3 sided" shape I described above and try to convert the corner verticies to arcs, the curved side of the "triangle" will be changed to something that has nothing to do with the original.

[mike m oz]

Nicholas

- That is because the tool can only add arcs to vertices that are bounded by two linear sides.

- If you decompose yor shape so that it consists of its 2 linear elements and its one arc element you can apply fillets between the linear elements and the arc element. The 3 arc elements and 2 linear elements can then be recomposed back into a single polygon.

[propstuff]

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Originally posted by eric.rktek:

The other big improvement would be to have it the fillet tool be able to fillet a line to an arc within the polyline shape.

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Mike,

That's exactly one of the points of Eric's wish: not to have to do things like that.

N.

[mike m oz]

Nicholas, I'll concede - hopefully the NNA people can modify the tool so you can do this.

[ 03-22-2006, 04:11 AM: Message edited by: mike m oz ]

[propstuff]

The Polyline functionality has progressively improved since I started using VW8.5. The new Paintbucket mode of the Polygon tool is a good example of this. However there are still improvements that need to be made.

cheers.

[DDDesign]

Nevertheless, the work-around suggested by Mike will be enough to get me out of trouble.

Thanks Mike.