SOLIDWORKS Surfacing to Repair and Streamline Parts 3/3 - Improve Fillets

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Surface modeling techniques are compelling for creating complex models, but they are also extremely useful for fixing existing models. In this 3-part video series, our expert Kali Gonzalez shows you three typical part examples you might encounter in your models or when importing geometry from neutral file formats and walks us through simplifying, repairing, and streamlining problematic geometry.
Video #1: Simplify Geometry • SOLIDWORKS Surfacing t... A drill bit model includes many unnecessary faces and weird curvature using the following techniques:
- Delete and Patch faces
- Intersection Curves
- Fit Spline
- Boundary Surface
- Replace Face
- Delete Body
- Curvature Analysis
- Cut with Surface
Fileset: bit.ly/35NXfu4
Video #2: Repair Geometry • SOLIDWORKS Surfacing t... An imported model contains a geometry error that cannot be fixed with import diagnostics but is rebuilt using the following techniques:
- Import Diagnostics with Automatic Repair
- Convert solid to surface with Delete Face
- Surface patching techniques
- Copy and Extend Faces
- Surface Fillets
- Knit surfaces into a solid
Fileset: bit.ly/3vLPcII
Video #3: Improve Fillets • SOLIDWORKS Surfacing t... A connecting rod requiring fillets has many intersecting features close together, creating a sub-optimal corner where the fillets meet. The problematic region is removed, trimmed up, and replaced using the following techniques:
- Take advantage of Symmetry
- Split Body
- Delete Face
- Spline on Surface
- Trim Surface
- Boundary Surface
- Knit surfaces into a solid
- Pattern bodies
Fileset: bit.ly/3xNOEne

[@kandasamyrajan]

Thanks for the explanation. Please upload this file to replicate the work.

[@MLCCADSystems]

Here you go! bit.ly/3xNOEne

[@kandasamyrajan]

@@MLCCADSystems Thanks.