2D fillets and CNC

thomthom

outland86 - could you post a picture of exactly what the before and after result would be? haven't heard of such a plugin. But it might be something that wouldn't be too hard to put together. depending on what it is.

TIG

This is what I think is needed...
It requires a bit of trigonometry to locate the arc center so that a point on its circumference falls on the picked vertex and the two intersection points, and then the tool needs to erase the unneeded bits, but otherwise it's relatively easy...
How would the radius and segmentation be supplied ?
However, it is not at the head of my queue - any other takers ?

thomthom

I might be able to squeeze out something. Just need to verify some design questions.

So if you use a 5mm tool to mill the shape, you use the same 5mm tool for these dog-bones?
Or do you do another pass at the end with a different tool.
It's a matter if you need to specify one or two parameters to calculate the shape.

thomthom

Also - are we only talking about squares here?

TIG

It's be possible to add a filletCNC to any angle of corner <180 degrees [>=180 it's pointless] - the trig just gets more complex to find the intersections.
Here's my trig thoughts
We know the vertex.
We know the vectors of the two edges coming off it.
We can find the bisecting angle of these and thereby the vector that the arc center lies on.
We offset the vertex-point as a new point along the angle-bisector vector by the radius - that gives us the arc's center.
We can get the angle between an edge's vector and the angle-bisector vector - the angle from the arc's center to the intersection of the arc and that edge in the same angle, so we can work out where the two edges' intersection points are.
To erase the unwanted bits of the two edges break split them at the intersection points by drawing a temporary line between these two points, it should split off the bits to be deleted: erase the unwanted bits of edge which will have their start/ends at the vertex and intersection points, do this before adding the arc.
We have enough info to make an arc - radius/segs, center, normal[?], swept-angle/start/end points etc.
When the arc is added erase the temp-line to tidy up.

thomthom

Yea. I Sketched up how I could calculate this. Was thinking I could make it into a tool that produces a preview and let the user specify the radius in the VCB.

TIG

@thomthom said:

Yea. I Sketched up how I could calculate this. Was thinking I could make it into a tool that produces a preview and let the user specify the radius in the VCB.

See my 2D Tools Arc etc for examples of this... you get dynamic VCB radius and segment preview etc
Note how the angle between the arc center and vertex and the side intersection sis the same... not [yet] drawn on your example ?

fredo6

@outland86 said:

Hi thanks for all the replies
you are on the right track
the picture looks about right
but you want to make it so you remove as little of the corner material as possible without
losing the abilaty to fit the square peg in the round hole so to speak.

t bone is similar but a t shape instead of the dogbone shape pictured.
both have the same result.

a router can cut square outside corners but not square inside corners so to allow all sorts of square parts to fit into other square holes and slots.

does anyone know if a plugin could be written to carry out this operation on a 2D drawing using just a point and click routine and also being able to set the radius prior

This could be written as an extension of Bezier Spline, whether for drawing or for converting existing curves.
I assume the parameters are the radius and the number of segments. There is also the angle of the small opening.
What a bout T Bones?

Fredo

outland86

Hi and thanks

once more for all the interest
i am lost with all the math but i did draw apicture to illustrate
it is here.

this is what is needed
to be able to create the fillets just by a single comand in sketchup where you point and click the corner point of the slot or square then choose the raduis for the arc. which would be the same as the raduis of the tool you would use to cut the material on the CNC router

thomthom

So you want to pick each corner individually? Not click on a face and have all corners filleted.

fredo6

@outland86 said:

Hi and thanks

once more for all the interest
i am lost with all the math but i did draw apicture to illustrate
it is here.

this is what is needed
to be able to create the fillets just by a single comand in sketchup where you point and click the corner point of the slot or square then choose the raduis for the arc. which would be the same as the raduis of the tool you would use to cut the material on the CNC router

That's easy for orthogonal segments. But how does it work when the angle is not 90°?

Fredo

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

That's easy for orthogonal segments. But how does it work when the angle is not 90°?

The drill bit would move on a vector in the middle between the two corners. With angles > 90° you will still get a curve, just smaller, but with angles < 90° you would get a half circle and edges that run tangentially back to the corner - simulating the drill bit moving up that direction.

thomthom

Fredo - are you adding this to your Bezier Spline plugin?

One thing though, the behaviour would depend if the edges that make up the corner is an inner or outer loop. I'd think you'd need to have the base shape - as a face first. In order to determine this.

fredo6

@thomthom said:

Fredo - are you adding this to your Bezier Spline plugin?

One thing though, the behaviour would depend if the edges that make up the corner is an inner or outer loop. I'd think you'd need to have the base shape - as a face first. In order to determine this.

Tom,

You are right. My initial idea was to integrate it as an extension of BezierSpline, which is the quick path.
However, the T-Bone is not symetrical and the question of inner vs outer is very relevant.

So maybe it's not a good idea.

Fredo

thomthom

I was looking briefly at it yesterday. My initial idea was letting the user pick Face Loops - like my Select Edge Loop tool in Selection Toys. you can click on an edge and it's use that loop, or pick a face where it'd take all loops.

Only thing which had me puzzled was - how to determine the offset of a point to go into the face?

Also - it's now the question to if outland86 want to pick each corner one by one.

Dog-bones are easy to determine, but with T-bones, you have two possible outcomes. What should determine this? the user pick each point and indicate direction. Or user pick loops and indicate which direction the tool would take around the loop and keep all T-Bone fillets going in the same direction.

Dave R

Considering the application in outland86's original request, these cuts would only be used on the outside of a corner. Think of the rectangular tab that needs to be inserted in the hole. That's the reason for the relief cuts in the first place. I think if you selected the inner face of the rectangle, ran the tool, entered the diameter of the cutter and hit Enter. It would be enough. Perhaps there would be two menu entries. One for Dogbone and one for T-Bone In the case of the T-bone, I think you'd either settle on a convention or extending the short side of the rectangle or you'd have to choose the correct side.

thomthom

I was thinking of that - but surely, there must be a way to calculate this without going through the overhead of testing points.

My idea - which I haven't tested, was using the angle of the corner (returned by .angle_between, using the normal of each edge segment) and determine if it needs to be rotated left or right depending on the direction of the edges on the face. As I understand, edges normally run counter-clockwise around a face, unless they are reversed. Which I'd then think could be used to determine if you should rotate left/right.

thomthom

@dave r said:

I think if you selected the inner face of the rectangle, ran the tool, entered the diameter of the cutter and hit Enter. It would be enough. Perhaps there would be two menu entries. One for Dogbone and one for T-Bone In the case of the T-bone, I think you'd either settle on a convention or extending the short side of the rectangle or you'd have to choose the correct side.

"Outside" would depend if your on the outer loop of a face, or on a inner loop (a hole).

@dave r said:

Considering the application in outland86's original request, these cuts would only be used on the outside of a corner.

But what if the shape isn't a simple rectangle? That was just the example given.

TIG

@thomthom said:

I was looking briefly at it yesterday. My initial idea was letting the user pick Face Loops - like my Select Edge Loop tool in Selection Toys. you can click on an edge and it's use that loop, or pick a face where it'd take all loops.

Only thing which had me puzzled was - how to determine the offset of a point to go into the face?

Also - it's now the question to if outland86 want to pick each corner one by one.

Dog-bones are easy to determine, but with T-bones, you have two possible outcomes. What should determine this? the user pick each point and indicate direction. Or user pick loops and indicate which direction the tool would take around the loop and keep all T-Bone fillets going in the same direction.

RickW wrote an extra offset.rb method that's very useful.
To see which side of an edge a face is yo can offset the vertex_point a tiny amount by a +small_degree vector [use face.normal for rotation] and use a face.classify_point test to see if the point is on the face, if it's not the the face is on the other side of the edge...

TIG

If you are picking each point then only corners <180 degrees need the extra arc-hole, so place it on the smaller angle formed by the edges?