3 Replies Latest reply on Mar 10, 2013 5:56 PM by Jerry Steiger

How to "fillet" cyllinders in a truss?

Adam Bird Mar 8, 2013 5:00 PM

Hi all,

I have a truss consisting of cyllindrical rods. The nodes are currently sharp corners where the cyllinders impinge. I want to smooth out these corner. So for example, I have an equilateral triangle. The edges are made up of cyllinders. There are sphere of radius equal to the cyllinder radius at the corners, so the exterior corners are smooth. I would like to smooth out the interior corners.

Basically i want to do a fillet, but on cyllinders instead of lines.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Adam

Re: How to "fillet" cyllinders in a truss?

Jerry Steiger Mar 8, 2013 5:17 PM (in response to Adam Bird)

Adam,

You should be able to just pick an edge where two of your rods join and put a Fillet feature on it. If you are generating your truss as a multibody part, you need to join the bodies before you can add the Fillet.

Jerry S.
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- Re: How to "fillet" cyllinders in a truss?
  
  Adam Bird Mar 8, 2013 5:53 PM (in response to Jerry Steiger)
  
  How do I join two parts? I have all of my parts in an assembly. I tried using the instrutions here:
  
  http://help.solidworks.com/2012/English/solidworks/sldworks/creating_a_joined_part.htm
  
  But on the top bar, under "insert" (right of file, edit, view) there is no "Features" button. Where si te "join" button?
  
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    Jerry Steiger Mar 10, 2013 5:56 PM (in response to Adam Bird)
    
    Adam,
    
    If you built the rods as multiple bodies in a single part, then you want to use Insert/Features/Combine. If you built the rods as individual parts in an assembly, then you can use File/Save As with "All components" picked under "Geometry to save:". You will then need to Combine the bodies in the single part.
    
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