creating a fillet

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Denny324
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creating a fillet

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Being fairly new to the cnc world I'm attempting to make a cathedral top door with a fillet return. I used the arc command to form the arc and polyline to connect the ends of the arc back to flat surface. I want to create a fillet where the to lines meet but have attempted the fillet commands with no luck. Can someone help me see what I missed?

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Re: creating a fillet

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Are the lines joined into a single vector? I think this is necessary for a fillet operation.

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Re: creating a fillet

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Change the arcs to beziers. Fillet tool doesn’t work on arcs
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The fillet tool works with two arcs in VCarve 10.5 or 11, but I wasn't able to make it work in 9.5.
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Are the vectors grouped? Most of the tools that modify vectors won't work if a vector is part of a group.
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Re: creating a fillet

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Are the lines joined? You say you used the polyline tool to connect the arcs to a flat surface but that won't mean they are actually joined.

Best thing to do to get a 100% correct answer is to attach the actual file so the drawing can be looked at.

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Re: creating a fillet

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Thanking everyone that responded to my dilemma. Tried several different methods and still didn't help. Finally tried a boolean operation and created the radius needed and put the cut on the line for the profile cut and accomplished what I needed. Really enjoying the challenges this CNC world has created!!

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