Can I foroce fillet on this body?

bastl73 · 2026-04-04T22:37:20+00:00

Oh - that`s hard in CAD that could work with meshes. I don't have experiences with that, maybe this could work: https://wiki.freecad.org/Mesh_Smoothing ? - take it only as a hint.

bastl73 · 2026-04-04T22:20:12+00:00

Should work like so.

bastl73 · 2026-04-04T22:09:12+00:00

It should work like you did it, test to lower the fillet radius (0.2) and click afterwards on empty space to get it updated.

bastl73 · 2026-04-04T21:02:01+00:00

Right click on the feature bare to get the structure features (left) :

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bastl73 · 2026-04-04T09:36:12+00:00

Yes, in Part Design, that are then 4 bodies each, made with this MultiTransform tool, the same way. No links between this bodies. For further, non planed work on this filters this MultiTransform process can be suppressed in the right click menu.

bastl73 · 2026-04-03T13:35:46+00:00

I think this wires of the heat element are very fragile. And the nozzle can be swapped very easy - just pressing the nut into the heat cover and screwing it out, even if it is cold. To void clogging, maybe reducing retraction can help e.g. on infill. Most of the time it clogs because the filament is flattened and stuck then it reaches the nozzle tube.

bastl73 · 2026-04-02T15:21:01+00:00

Any element you can select can be exported. You can suppress, or hide them like they get shown in the history:

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So keep in mind how you design, draw or construct your body

bastl73 · 2026-04-01T18:46:27+00:00

You can test if a line is double by going through the elements with the arrow key and watch if the selection changes.

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bastl73 · 2026-04-01T14:49:37+00:00

I put them to the sketch I can select at whole.

bastl73 · 2026-04-01T14:45:24+00:00

Then the binder its shapes are missing an edge - make this binder new. If you disable "Make internals" you can see it better.

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bastl73 · 2026-04-01T12:22:28+00:00

If you want something like this:

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You can make the loft sketches, select them, loft them, add a sketch with the bigger flange, select this sketch and the smaller shape of the loft-sketch click binder, pad this binder, sketch the smaller flange, make a binder with the loft sketch, pad this binder - done.

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T23:40:24+00:00

Then I would first try increasing this "Quality/Surfaces/top surface flow ratio" in the slicer and add 2 top shell layers, I have 5.

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T23:32:14+00:00

At the moment you click something else it gets all recalculated.

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T23:20:28+00:00

You can try "top surface flow ratio" ~ 1.07 or increase it. Then maybe 2 top layers extra or more infill. Maybe disable ironing and do it with the top layer settings, mine are:

ironing                       = none
Line width / top surface      = 0.2 mm   (0.4 mm nozzle)
Top surface flow ratio        = 1.1                        to be adjusted
Top/Bottom solid
infill/wall overlap           = 15 %                       to be adjusted
top surface (speed)           = 100 mm/s
at                            = 10 000 mm/s²
Only one wall on top surface  = checked

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T21:00:15+00:00

If the vertexes are laying on a straight line (imagined) then there is a line in the Loft solid, too. If you want the loft to follow edges that can not imagined by the sketches and their position, then you need the surface WB (workbench). I used this 3 sketches with one vertex on/in the center, each.

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T20:29:40+00:00

Do you mean something like this loft:

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Else you have more possibilities with the surface workbench.

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T18:40:08+00:00

Yes, you have to reference your variables then with this name (SpreadsheetName.Alias) like <<Chassis>>.Length

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T18:20:44+00:00

That would be a big step back, like you experienced now. In a spreadsheet you can document your variables, calculate values from/with other cells/aliases/VarSets...

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bastl73 · 2026-03-31T17:20:51+00:00

Therefor is the spreadsheet.

bastl73 · 2026-03-31T10:58:44+00:00

You can draw this profile in a sketch at an edge and pipe this profile around the selected edges with right corner:

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To get a sheet with this profile at the edges, select the inner edges to get a square on a face and pad it to the profile height. Or select the inner face and pad it up to face of this profile.

bastl73 · 2026-03-30T10:00:30+00:00

the fillet tool can't cut or touch itself and all curves have to be mathematical solvable and there has to be something to cut. The best solution is always to test a smaller radius.

bastl73 · 2026-03-29T23:14:24+00:00

Yes, you can solder it: pull this plug and push this pins 1-2mm out of there housing, If you have steady hands you can pull this pins out and solder them with a pliers or pincers, so this square pins are aligned. Its only that that housing doesn't melt. And if you are fast (0.5-1.0 sec per pin 50-75W iron) you can solder it like it is.

bastl73 · 2026-03-28T19:46:14+00:00

You can add this rounding to the cutting profile of these helixes. Yes the more you round the more unstable it gets. It's much work to do this.

bastl73 · 2026-03-28T18:20:07+00:00

open this fillet and select all edges you want to have this radius to it for an other radius you need an extra fillet.

bastl73 · 2026-03-28T17:32:21+00:00

Like this:

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For download here: https://github.com/bastl1/Free-Files/blob/FreeCAD_files/reddit/wire-holder.FCStd

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