Troubleshooting
A fillet or chamfer step turned red or produced nothing. The usual causes (radius too large, tangent edges, wrong order) and how to fix each.
For CAD pros
Where each familiar concept lives in Solid Vibes: feature tree, equations, mates, configurations, rollback, drawings, and the places the model is deliberately different.
…parametric B-rep, evaluated by OpenCascade, so the fundamentals will feel familiar: sketches, extrudes, fillets, booleans, patterns, exact curved surfaces, STEP in and out. Concepts Concept SolidWorks Fusion Onshape Solid…
For CAD pros
Recipes never store face or edge indices. They store semantic queries. Here is the selector vocabulary, why it survives upstream edits, and how to debug an empty match.
…the reason many parametric models break when you edit an early feature. A fillet that referred to "edge 42" suddenly refers to a different edge, or to nothing, because the…
Ideas
The steps behind organic shapes: flowing shapes through cross-sections, smooth blends that are softer than a fillet, smooth joins between added parts, filling an opening, thickening a skin into a wall and cutting a flat base for the print bed.
For CAD pros
Where sketch relations, equations and design intent live in Solid Vibes: formulas that define geometry, rule checks that guard it, and what sketch constraints currently do.
…level parameter) An inner cavity with constant wall inner size = outer 2 wall A fillet never larger than the wall radius = min(fillet radius, wall 0.8) Expressions can use + / ^ % , parentheses…
Troubleshooting
What a red step means, what each error type tells you, and how self-healing history lets the agent explain and repair the break.
…failed step explains itself in plain language, naming the numbers involved. For example: "The fillet radius (6 mm) is larger than the 4 mm wall." Symptom A step in the…
For CAD pros
The constrained sketcher: enter sketch mode on a plane or face, draw with inferred constraints, see what is still free (blue), fully defined (black) or over-defined (red), fix conflicts, drag, trim, offset, mirror, pattern and fillet corners.
Ideas
Every piece is built from a list of plain-language steps. Learn to read it, edit it, and use it to understand any model, including ones you did not make.
…Add 4 heat-set bosses for M3 in the corners Fillet the outer vertical edges, radius 3 mm Each step has tappable values. Change…
Start here
How to read what the agent did, what Accept, Tweak and Reject really do, and when to open the trace panel.
…confidence asks you. Tool calls. Each action the agent took, such as sketch, extrude, fillet, hole, or measure. Each shows a status (running, done, or error), a timing, and sometimes…
Playbooks
Photograph the broken part next to a coin, let the agent measure it, then print a replacement that is stronger than the original.
…break at the same weak spots. Ask for improvements: prompt Add a 2 mm fillet where the arm meets the base to reduce stress. Make sure the layers will run…
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