I have a fairly complicated drawing that I use as a leather pattern. I have tried for several hours to clean up all “corners” using the Node editor and then filetting them with the fillet tool . I have spent several hours trying to fix one “corner” without success.
I have attached the project file and would appreciate someone looking at the project and telling me what needs to be done to fillet the bottom left corner.
Thanks in advance…
lower_left_corner_cannot_fillet.lbrn2 (58.4 KB)
So you don’t have a closed shape. Some artifact doesn’t seem to want to let it close and it actually starts on the right corner here
I started by separating that corner from the other.
Then I went to the left side and actually deleted the line here. This made sure I was working with 2 completely identifiable and independent segments.
Then go reconnect the nodes on the right and make sure they join properly and that all the ants are marching the same direction. Then I used the line tool to re-draw in the line I deleted and everything closed up nicely. After that I was able to add radius just fine.
If that doesn’t make sense, let me know.
I don’t know why LB won’t let me close the shape even with tollerance cranked all the way up.
The clue was to pay attention to which way the lines are marching. When you select the one in your file above they’re actually moving in 2 different directions and you can track down where your bad corners are by looking for where the direction change occurs.
I tried to join them but it just refused. I tried to auto close and again it refused. It was just easier to break it clean and redo each one at a time making sure at each step the lines all rotated in the right direction together.
Thanks, I finally got it. Can you tell me what process I need to go through to get the ants to all march in same direction??
As long as all of the nodes are joined properly, they’ll all march the same direction. A closed shape will have a continuous loop marching the same direction. So when you see it the way it was originally with a change in direction it tells you something isn’t right.
You can also go to Edit > Select Open Shapes and it will do just that.
Now to be fair, a shape doesn’t have to be closed to be able to radius the corner in 1.5 but something was just off that I couldn’t figure out so I sort of hit the reset on two trouble spots and everything resolved.
Thanks for explanation. I noticed the ants marching but didn’t pick up they were going in opposite directions. I will pay more attention to the way they move in the future to avoid getting so frustrated…
I did some more playing around with this. I still can’t find the underlying cause but I did simplify the fix. All I really had to do was delete one segment and then I was able to auto join the shapes. Then added back in the deleted line segment and all was right in the world.
Video here
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