Rounding the corners of lines that are not straight lines

[alex91]

Hello,

Does anyone have any ideas for rounding the corners of lines that aren’t straight lines? In my file, I’d like to round all the outer edges so they don’t have such sharp edges. I tried using the Roundcorner plugin, but I’ll let you see what happens.

Thank you for your help.

Best regards,

Alex

[bmike]

You may have better luck if you share the file. Drag it to the reply window, or post it to DropBox or WeTransfer.

[alex91]

Here it is! Thanks in advance for your help and explanations.

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Branche droite.skp (98.4 KB)

[bmike]

It’s a bit of a mess. Things are really flat, so round corner is going up and down and trying to work out how to make the surface work… you can see it in the weird shading happening:

Not sure what your intent with the model is, but cleaner modeling and control of the surfaces and lines would yield better results.

I spent a few minutes on it… but I don’t have time to sort it out, and I’m not the best person on the forum to help correct this sort of thing.

[alex91]

Thanks for your reply !
I understand what you are saying. I will see to correct the basic model…
How did you achieve what you did in the second photo? The rounded arc? Via roundcorner?
Thank you very much.

[bmike]

Yes I used round corner but I re made that shape so it would work better.

[DaveR]

Like Mike, I redrew the shape so it is cleaner. Part of cleaning up the shape was to eliminate all that triangulation on the top and bottom surfaces. It’s not clear if you want the bottom edges rounded too but I did it. I used FredoCorner instead of Round Corner.

[alex91]

Hello,

Thank you for your work…

Indeed, it looks like what I wanted! But why is it that when I apply the round corner action, it deletes faces?

You say you’re using FredoCorner? What’s the difference?

Thank you.

[DaveR]

@alex91

But why is it that when I apply the round corner action, it deletes faces?

With all the narrow triangulated faces on the top of the piece, the Roundover created by the extension results in very short edges and the “tiny face” issue. Cleaning up the geometry to eliminate those triangles avoids the tiny face issue.

@alex91

You say you’re using FredoCorner? What’s the difference?

It has some capabilities that Round Corner doesn’t but it wouldn’t make a difference if the bad geometery wasn’t first dealt with.

[alex91]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your help…

After completely re-establishing the shape and its elevation, once the triangulation problems disappeared, everything returned to normal!

Thanks everyone,

Alex