Description: This is my blog about Autodesk CAD software, including Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Showcase, and Autodesk Vault!
Once upon a time, I was asked, in reference to Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Fusion 360, "Why would someone want to have a fillet feature with more than one radius in it?"
It's a fair question. It's likely we can pick a feature in just about any CAD tool and ask, "Why is that there?"
But to that end, I did have a reason one might want to combine two different fillet radii in one feature. It's a matter of organization. In my design work, I often find myself modeling O-ring grooves, which nearly always have a different radius at the top and the bottom of the gland. Having the ability to combine the different radii in the same feature allows me to combine the fillets into a "O-ring Radius Feature", and maybe shave down the feature tree a little bit. An O-ring groove using two different rad