Creating Fillets

image The Fillet tool in Inventor may seem daunting at first because of the number of buttons and combination of options, but once you understand the layout of the dialog box and the intended use of the options, you'll be able to create fillets of all types. There are three basic types of fillets:

Edge fillets These are fillets created based on selected edges.

Face fillets These are fillets created between two faces or face sets.

Full round fillets These are fillets that are tangent to three adjacent faces or face sets.

When you start the Fillet tool (on the Modify panel of the Model tab), it will default to edge fillets. You can ...

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