About creating rolled edge surfaces
The Tube flange and Fillet flange tools were designed to help you finish edges of surface models.
- Tube flange enables you to define exactly where the tube starts. This is important for aesthetic reasons.
- Fillet flange enables you to control exactly the widest dimension of the fillet. This is important when creating cut lines that must have a specific gFillet flangeap distance.
The rolled edge tool family enables you to create both the flange and the surface fillet with a single tool. This makes the edge finishing more efficient, and also makes maintaining the construction history of the complete surface set that defines the edge finish easier to accomplish.
These two examples identify the two main cases for finishing surface edges. For the first case, there is a pre-defined contact line where the edge finish (consisting of a fillet and flange) needs to be added.
For the second case, a pre-defined silhouette line controls the creation of the fillet.