A system and method for direct modeling of fillets and draft angles include forming a fillet region having a first transition from a surface feature to the fillet region and a second transition from a base surface to the fillet region while maintaining a predetermined continuity at the first and second transitions. The system and method select (75) a general form of a fillet profile with a single basis function to describe the fillet, apply (76) the fillet profile to either side of a constant central region on the surface feature to form a surface feature profile, and sweep (77) the surface feature profile within the feature boundary to form the fillet region. The present invention allows such fillet regions to be subsequently modified while maintaining the predetermined continuity at the first and second transitions by applying a reparametrization (78) to the basis function to modify the fillet region.