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Smooth the controller grip using fillets

Smooth the controller grip using fillets - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Smooth the controller grip using fillets

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- [Instructor] This is the stage that we've previously got to with our controller model. You can see we've sort of got half a controller here but it's quite angular. And if you held this it probably wouldn't be very comfortable to play games with. So we're going to round off the sharp edges using fillets. We're going to start with a single loop around here. Select the fillet tool from the features tab. I'm just using a constant size round fillet. Let's try 12 millimeters. So type in 12 here on the left, and then choose the edge. And on the preview, that looks pretty good. So I'm going to press okay to add that fillet. Now, because we're working with lofts your model might look slightly different to mine depending exactly where you clicked on the profiles when you made the loft and things like that. Ideally we want to have one single surface all the way around here. If I just change the size of this fillet from 12 to 15.…

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