Creating a Rib Fillet

If you have a face of a solid surrounded by walls, you can replace the face with a rib fillet.

The new fillet is tangent to the walls and its base touches where the face used to lie.

To create a rib fillet:

1. Click Solid tab > Feature panel > Rib Fillet to display the Rib Fillet dialog:

   

2. Choose a Selection Mode:

   Individual faces — Only selects the face clicked.

   Adjacent continuous faces — Selects the face clicked and all faces that are adjacent and tangent-plane continuous to the clicked face.

   All continuous faces — Selects the face clicked and all faces which form a tangent-plane continuous surface with the clicked face.

Tip: Hold down the Ctrl key and click faces to add and remove them from the current selection.
3. Select a face on the solid as a guide surface. The fillet is created along this surface.

   

4. Click Apply to close the dialog and create a rib fillet on the solid:

   

   A Rib fillet feature icon representing the operation appears in the solid feature tree.