Activating the command:
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Draw
Draw Fillet
- If lines or construction objects are selected, right-click and choose Fillet.
Naturally, the items need to be in the same plane to create the fillet.
- Select the Fillet command.
- Type the radius of the fillet in the Radius field.
- If you want the fillet to be created as line segments, make sure the Use as Construction is not activated. Then specify how many line segments into which the fillet will be divided in the Minimum Segments: field. The segments will be of equal length. To control the lengths of the lines created from the fillet, activate the Maximum Length: check box and specify the maximum length of the line segments that will be generated in the adjacent field. If the length of the fillet divided by the value in the Minimum Segments: field is greater than this value, more segments will be generated than specified in the Minimum Segments: field.
- Select each of the two lines to fillet. Select the lines closer to the endpoint on the segment to keep; the endpoint further from the selection click point will be trimmed or extended as needed to satisfy the fillet radius.
- The fillet will be created when the Apply button is clicked. If Use as Construction is not activated, the fillet and original lines and will be created as regular line segments. If the option is activated, the fillet and original lines will be created as a construction arc and two construction lines.
Tip: To trim or extend two lines so that they meet at the same point, create a fillet between the two lines with a radius of 0.
When the analysis type is Nonlinear, the Fillet command has an extra option: Create Pipe Bend. This option is used to create an elbow for the pipe element. For details, see the page Setting Up and Performing the Analysis: Nonlinear: Element Types and Parameters: Pipe Elements.