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Hatching .sldprt

Hatching .sldprt

Hatching .sldprt

(OP)
Can a surface area be hatched within the part. Or is it only possible in the drawing (sw2005)

Thanks for the advice

Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000

RE: Hatching .sldprt

Hatching is normally only done in the drawing, but you could apply a texture (to represent a hatch) to a surface if required.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Hatching .sldprt

CBL is correct. You can create a view of your model with hatch, then turn to shaded.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Hatching .sldprt

(OP)
Thanks. I'd rather not have the view shaded though. I did create the hatch, it fills the whole surface but hatch can be seen through the wall that surrounds the surface i'm hatching.

Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000

RE: Hatching .sldprt

Do you want a hatch in the model or drawing? Your OP suggests the model.

Can you post a screen capture of the problem you are seeing, and/or an image of what you are trying to do.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Hatching .sldprt

(OP)
heres what i have..it always ends up looking like this in the drawing. But i thought if it was possible in the model to hatch the area it may look right in the drawing view.

(view is shaded in the drawing)

http://img56.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hatch9em.jpg

You can see the hatch through the part

Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000

RE: Hatching .sldprt

If you created the hatch (in the model) as lines in a sketch, then yes it will show through.

If you used the Area Hatch/Fill then that must be a glitch/bug/limitation.

You are running SW05 so the texture will not help you in the drawing. You would need SW06 for that.

What are you trying to represent using the hatch?
If you can live with a shaded view, you could simply colour the surface in the model.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Hatching .sldprt

(OP)
I just wanted to show and area not to be painted. showing the hatch was a request. I just decided to throw a leadered note and forget the hatch. And yes its actually a limitation in the function i believe. Any idea if there's more functionality to Area Hatch/Fill in 2006? how do the new textures work? I also working to convince management to upgrade

thanks for the help though.

Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000

RE: Hatching .sldprt

In your case, I would change the surface texture or color.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716

RE: Hatching .sldprt

Yes, this is a limitation of the current hatch functionality.  I actually spoke about this and other hatch limitations with SW at SolidWorks World yesterday.  Maybe they will do some work in this area.

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 1/12/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0

RE: Hatching .sldprt

We do a number of paint drawings - we've found the best way is to colour the area (instead of hatching). That way, the different colours can be shown on the drawing and model.

By the way, this process was very slow in SW2005 - much better in SW2006.

RE: Hatching .sldprt

(OP)
Thanks for all the help!

Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000

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