Is there any way to replace a fillet with a blend in SC (or just create a blended instead of a filleted edge in the first place)?

 Hello Engle,

You can do this by deleting the fillet face and performing a blend with guide curves.  Once the face is removed, select two of the opposing edges, and ALT-select the other pair of edges in Pull, then pull to blend.

Here is a short video demonstrating this.

 Can I ask why you are looking to get rid of the fillet?

Regards,

James

 Hi James

Thanks for the reply and video. As to the reason for asking, I often use blends as transition surfaces in Rhino rather than fillets (they look nicer), and sometimes the easiest way to trim the adjacent surfaces back in preparation for the blend is to perform a fillet first, then remove the fillet and replace it with the blend. I'd comment that with the approach you've used in the video, if the guide surfaces aren't blend surfaces, thenewly created surface won't be either.

Is this a valid process in SC, or would you recommend another way? I've used Rhino for over ten years now (though I do soem stuff in Inventor and Solidworks for clients), so I've become a bit set in my ways!

I'm still trying to get my head around whether SC is a surface or solid modeller, just so that I can pigeonhole it. The more I use it (and it's very early days for me), the more I think it's neither. Or both. Or something else entirely!

P.S. For a newby like me, some of the videos are hard to follow because it's hard to see what commands are being called (the video panel comes up very small on my monitor).