disproportionate fillet

[philvanderloo]

Trying to figure out why, when I use the fillet tool in the modify panel, the fillet is disproportionate. I welded the vertices prior to using the fillet tool. This has been a repetitive operation and it was working fine on all the other pieces I needed to fillet.

Thanks

[Zdravko Barisic]

On spline?

Try to make all by corners, not B. or B. curves.

[philvanderloo]

Yes Zdravko,

I tried to post a video but needed to change the format, (.avi) and didn't have time. I'll post it later. Thank You for your reply.

[Zdravko Barisic]

Try with youtube difolt uploader, it will covert automaticaly, but it takes some time...

[philvanderloo]

OK here's the video. Still haven't figured this out.

http://youtu.be/aPKTXdRfG9c

Thanks

While I'm at it, is there any quick easy way to undo a fillet command on multiple objects done in a prior session? Didn't realize these were all jacked up at first. Now I need to redo when I find the fix to the first problem.

Edited May 28, 2014 by philvanderloo

[Chris MacDonald]

Try resetting the Xform through the utilities panel.

[philvanderloo]

Didn't work Chris.

Thank You though

[jasonstewart]

My guess is that the corner where you want the fillet is a bezier corner with the bezier facing down really long (if that makes sense). To fix it select all the vertical sections and set them to line rather than curve. Took me a while to reproduce the error and that was the only combination of things that caused/fixed it.

[philvanderloo]

Jason,That pretty much nailed it.

The only confusion for me is that, this is one of four sections of a chair isolated. And in this tutorial, instructions were to make sure the vertical lines were set to line and the horizontals were set to curve. And this, being the fourth section I've used the fillet on, was the only one that didn't work until I did what you suggested and made them all lines?? ANyway, that fixed that.

Thank You

[jasonstewart]

It works for me with horizontals set to curve and vertical set to line. Glad it worked out for you, sometimes with Max is the dumbest thing that you will struggle with for a long time. With those vertical lines set to curve it is trying to use the tangent of a curve that would be massive so the fillet comes down way too far, with it as a line it uses the correct tangent and the end result is what you wanted in this case.