Enhancements to Rolled Edge tools

Improved fillet extensions

This applies to both Fillet Flange and Panel Gap and is described here: Improved fillet extensions.

New Form Factor interpretation

This applies to Fillet Flange, Tube Flange and Panel Gap, and is described here: Form Factor: new meaning and wider availability.

Ability to specify both Center Radius and Tangent Offset

We have added a third Specify option called Both.

This option lets you specify both the Tangent Offset and Center Radius of the fillet, but not the Form Factor. The form factor is calculated automatically from these two values and varies along the fillet.

If Specify is set to Center radius or Tangent offset, and you also set the form factor, the third parameter (either Tangent offset or Center radius) varies along the fillet. Alias 2013 behaved differently: the form factor stayed constant and was linked to the other two values by the formula Form Factor = Center Radius / Tangent Offset. This relationship no longer holds true.

These options now apply to G1 Tangent fillets as well as G2 Curvature fillets.

Ability to select free curves in Tubular offset

The Surfaces > Rolled Edge > Tubular Offset tool now lets you select free curves as input when the Surface option is set to Tube. If the curves are tangent continuous (G1), you can select them all at once.

The output is a tube surface surrounding the curves. Hold the key and click on the input curves to add radius manipulators that let you vary the radius of the tube along its length.

Note: Since this behavior reproduces the functionality from Surfaces > Tube Surface, that tool has been removed from the interface.

Tube Flange has V degree

We added a (Section) V Degree slider to the option window of Tube Flange to make it consistent with the other fillet tools. To see this option, Explicit Control must be checked on.