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Create a face fillet using hold lines

Create a face fillet using hold lines - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tips & Tricks

Create a face fillet using hold lines

- In this video I'm going to be showing you how to create a Face Fillet using Hold Lines. Now before I get into that I do want point out what a regular Constant Radius Fillet looks like. Now you can see it here with this yellow cylinder in this grey cylinder, and the blue fillet between the two. That's a Standard Constant Radius Fillet, and you can see it's got a lot of material here in the back, very little material in the front, and very little material on the sides. In contrast, this green fillet here you can see, has got very little material on the back, quite a bit of material on the front as well as on the sides. And that's what I'm going to be showing you how to create. The first thing I want to do is I want to create a couple of Split Lines. So the first Split Line I'm gonna use is to cut this blue cylinder here in half, and then I'm gonna cut a Split Line into this grey cylinder and we're gonna use those two Split Lines as our Hold Lines for that fillet. So let's go up here…

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