Hey everyone. I need help creating a radius around a cap I am making to 3D print. I have the radius on the 4 corners and I push/pulled it for thickness, but I can figure out how to make a radius on the edge now going completely around the square cap. I tried Follow Me but it didn’t work and I tried Offset and it didn’t work. I was probably doing it all wrong. I would love to figure out how to make these radius on the edges. Thank you.
Cap.skp (266.3 KB)
I’d recommend a plugin like Fredo’s RoundCorner. It’s not free but if you do this often, it’s a time saver. Or you can do with native FollowMe. Whichever method you choose, be sure to scale up your model x10…example if you’re working in mm….draw it as if it were in meters or else your tiny geometry will cause problems.
With RoundCorner:
Select the edge you want to radius, enter the radius offset. It’s nice as it previews it before you commit the action.
With FollowMe:
Create the radius you want as it’s own piece of geometry and set it inside of your top edge. Hint use X-Ray mode and a Section cut to help see/place correctly. Then select the profile to follow and it’ll ‘subtract’ from your object. Same result. Just the added step of creating the profile geometry and placing it.
Thank you so much. I dont have RoundCorner and if I try it using FollowMe I still can’t figure it out. I dont know what im doing wrong.
Maybe the first scenes of this SU file can give you some ideas,
Dice.skp (575.7 KB)
Thank you so much. I will certainly look it over.
