Solidworks2025. Continuous Edge Variable Fillet Option

[@johnpelitidis6297]

Thanks Andrew

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

All good John

[@zackfreeman8025]

Thanks for the video Andrew!

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

All good Zack!

[@vma3541]

Hi Andrew, Thanks for update ! merry xmas !!

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

Hi Vincent, all good! Hope you have a good Xmas!

[@georges6591]

Hi Andrew, what buttons do you use as shortcuts for the different viewing modes? zebra, curvature etc.?

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

Hi George, I have the following. Z - zebra. C - shaded curvature. D - deviation analysis. F2 - wireframe. F3 - shaded with edges. F4 - hide all. F5 - hide planes. Always have sketches shown, but controlled via F4.

[@georges6591]

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio nice one. thank you very much for the quick reply. After seeing how quickly you jumped from one command to another, it makes me want to apply the same methodology to save time.

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

@@georges6591 Definitely worth setting up some shortcuts to control visibility/display etc. Makes modelling a more fluid experience!

[@lingfengtao1883]

seems like it's just not working whenever some extra split lines are in the model. but at least good to know SW is finally improving...

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

They are not split lines, they are boundaries of separate surfaces, which presents more of a challenge to SW as split lines are just the same surface except split. Which is even better I guess as far as robustness goes. Be interesting to see what others think once SW2025 is more widely installed once it hits sp5

[@tonsab.assist.master]

10 years too late i think!

[@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio]

I wish they'd have more info about how this is different to the pre Sw2025 variable fillet. It is guess work otherwise. In the case of patterning reference geometry, they're 20 years too late compared to Creo!

[@g3d894]

@@AndrewJacksonDesignStudio Dear Andrew, you are a reference and when you write this, I feel very sincere, because I have been following you for a long time and I remember that you have commented several times that you had great modeling experience with PTC Creo. I stay here thinking and I feel like suggesting some things to you, evaluate, think about it all, no charges ok, very calm about it, they are suggestions only and because what I imagine is the following, everything you do is first for the love of modeling, it is for learning and staying active and for helping people to evolve too and this all returns to you as encouragement, learning, job referrals, in the past I've suggested that you create a Patreon, but I believe that this conflicts with an internal "demand" for you, for example: "I'm going to feel pressured by having to produce content every month, and when I have work ordered how will it be", am I more or less right? If so, we would have to support you with a fixed monthly amount to at least pay for your hours of teaching and dedication, I think we should have a group of those who really like modeling in the surface segment for products, away from sheet metal bending, complex assemblies and hard engineering, but with a focus on modeling surfaces from simple to challenging models, of interesting products and pieces in bold shapes, nothing very different from what you have already produced... and maybe explore other programs also with the same challenge, with part and product, for example this test that you just did of the simple rectangle with variable fillet, you comment at 16:35 "it would be nice to have an edge distance option", I wonder, how would this behave in a hi-end program like PTC Creo? And how would you behave in a mid-end show like the popular Plasticity that's coming with everything? Speaking of Plasticity, I just signed it, I haven't installed it yet, I intend to install it and start studying it next year, I looked at it as a fun program and thought why learn it if you have Rhino and Moi or Alias, but I was wrong, I started looking at the videos of a modeler called Kuechmeister Swagger, it models concepts very fast and shows the power and agility that it is with this program, it has several others but it has a less commercial advertising footprint and more of industrial design and complex model modeling challenges, Pasticity has xNURBS and it looks pretty powerful with it for quick sketches, studies and closures of complex surfaces, so master Andrey, I think it's worth looking at it too, I would keep these 3 programs in mind Solidworks, PTC Creo and Plasticity, Solidworks is already in progress, PTC Creo and Plasticity start with the basics and go evolved. If you think it's better to keep "only" Soliworks it's okay too, your studies are already deep and fantastic with it and you already have your "ass" and it's okay... The only thing that still sticks in my mind is for the quick sketches of product design, would it be faster with Palsticity? It seems to me so... and at the same time my biggest doubt: And in a change is it faster or not, since it is not parametric?... See that you have so many questions here in this text that it would yield a video of you talking about it since you have so much experience in various programs and mainly involved in modeling real products for industry with its numerous requests for changes... Still on how to pay your hours, tell us what you prefer, if you set up a group via Patreon, Discord, or donate here through YT, or open an account on Gumroad with a monthly or annual amount and we will join and help you... All this, is a thought for you and for those who follow you here too, I want to be around and keeping motivated and always learning, you have this power to unite us and motivate us, and we have to help you too, thank you always and we will support you always, regardless of what you decide, just don't disappear for too long and I understand that sometimes you are committed to work and that you also need an important time to rest! PS.: I'll send you an email with a challenge, I want a quote and keep my contact. Thank you always and my highest admiration and respect for you master!