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238 CHAPTER 7 Modeling with PriMary Features
Making Multiple Fillet Sizes
The Multiple Radius Fillet option in the Fillet PropertyManager enables you to make multiple
fillet sizes within a single Fillet feature. Figure 7.20 shows how the Multiple Radius Fillet feature
looks when you are working with it. You can change values in the callout flags or in the
PropertyManager.
Figure 7.20
using the Multiple
radius Fillet option
Although you may see a small performance benefit when condensing several features into
one, many more downsides adversely affect performance:
◆ You lose control of feature order.
◆ A single failed fillet causes the whole feature, and therefore all the fillets, to fail.
◆ Troubleshooting is far more difficult.
◆ Smaller groups of fillets cannot be suppressed without suppressing everything.
◆ You cannot change the size of a group of fillets together.
