TWIMC,
I am trying to figure out how to fill in this hole that randomly appeared in my body. This was one of the first sections I worked on, and going back to re-extrude and chamfer it would be at least 4 hours lost efforts. I ran through the history and there doesn’t seem to be any delete face event that could be un-done so I’m befuddled as to how this section has gotten away from me. There doesn’t seem to be a “fill holes” option, or a “draw face” option, but possibly I am just missing it.
Please and Thank You in advance for any assistance!
Liberty
Hard to tell anything by one image. If you can share your project I would like to investigate how this problem appears.
I’ve only ever had this on extremely tight geometry causing issues. Looks like that with the chamfer but hard to tell from one pic. Only way I’ve fixed it is by deleting or replacing the affected faces and re-doing the feature. Don’t have to re-do the entire body, just the affected area.
Also always a good idea to keep chamfer size to less than the radius of the curves/filets it follows so it remains smooth.
Replace face tool? Are you sure you don’t have a copy of the body occupying the same space?
Unfortunately there is no face to replace.
The defect actually happens every single time I create the associated feature, so I think what will need to happen if I want this geometry is that it needs some post-processing in the 3d slicer.
Your assessment is correct, it is indeed a chamfer on a radius. The program just doesn’t like this combo of radius and chamfer, unfortunately
Often changing the order of fillets fixes the issue.
I’ve had a similar issue before, usually certain angles, or chamfer too large to follow a fillet radius.
To correct I’ll usually do the chamfer first, to a sharp edge. Then input the outside filet, then on the chamfer edge just line up the filet as accurately as possible til they visually match. Creates 2 separate features but it’s a workaround.
