Create round surfaces

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When we've got a lot of small, detailed fillets, like on this console assembly, we'll typically use the Round tool instead of Surface Fillet.

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And with Round, we need to build our primary surfaces accurately to the coincident edges.

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There can't be any gaps or overlap.

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So I'll start by picking those edges, and I'll just pick these three and hit Build.

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And you can see that what the Round tool does is, it builds this corner component where the three fillet surfaces come together.

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And that's something that Surface Fillet doesn't do.

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With Query Edit, I can modify the radius values and they've initially got the value from the setting in the control window.

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But if I just click on that until it's white, I can either drag it to change the value or type in a value.

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And then hit Build again.

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And this time, it's given me what we call a set back corner,

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but I've got this hexagon icon here, and if I click on this, it cycles through all of the corner options that I've got.

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And I can experiment until I get the style of corner that I want.

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And this is something that I can set as the default in the round control window if I know which ones I prefer.

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So, I can delete one of these manipulators just by doing a Shift+click.

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And I can add a second manipulator to an edge just by clicking on the green line.

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And that will allow me to set up a variable radius fillet, and I can move the manipulator using the small triangle.

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And then when I hit Build, I get my varying fillet.

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And just use Shift+click again to remove that second manipulator.

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So, I can add the manipulators back onto edges I'd originally chosen, but I can't do it on the edges that weren't included in the first selection.

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What I need to do first is hit the Revert button and then all the edges become available for me to select.

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So probably the most useful part of Round is this box select option.

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And this allows me to just drag a box and select all of the edges in one go.

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And if I have a look at something more complex, like this cup holder component,

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then that becomes incredibly useful to quickly do a finishing off job on all of those sharp edges.