Is it possible to mirror a variable radius fillet in SolidWorks? I always get errors
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Here is the tutorial.
Answered with a tutorial: https://grabcad.com/tutorials/is-it-possible-to-mirror-a-variable-radius-fillet-in-solidworks-i-always-get-errors
An alternative. As a solid. Model half of the part and then mirror the "body" rather than the feature.
It is always a problem but there is another way of doing it. You can use an offset surface of the variable radius and set the value to 0.
Than mirror the surface and use cut by surface and you will get what you need.
Julian, i can't do that cause my part aren't symetrical ! left and right are different in most shape but only this fillet is the same left and right of the part and it gave me such hard time and don't understand why ! :(
If the faces are not symmetrical the fillet cannot calculate, you might have small differences and the system cannot work out which faces to fillet?. I am not sure I would mirror this type of feature; maybe in future work try a different approach. For now I think Branko has a good solution.