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Full Round Fillets with Autodesk Inventor - Page 3

By David Melvin, PE, TEDCF Publishing

You just select one side, the middle, and then the other side. When you select each surface the next selection icon will automatically become active.

That is, the active icon will automatically move down the list if the ‘Optimize for Single Selection’ option is checked. For example, you can select several faces for Side Face Set 1 by un-checking the option. In most cases you’ll leave it checked.

I also leave the ‘Include Tangent Faces’ option checked, because this options lets the fillet automatically continue over tangent, adjacent faces.

Select the faces, and click OK.

Why is this important?
This was a simple example of how the command can create a shape that would otherwise take several steps. The construction of more complicated shapes can be extremely simplified using the command.

For example, apply the Full Round command again to the adjacent faces of the same part and you get this.

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