Area Fill as Crosshatch
Area Fill as Crosshatch
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Is there any possibilty to use the "Concrete" Area Fill Type as an CrossHatch Style.
Currently I need for a customer some mixed materials in Section Views, as there are aluminium, steel, glass and wood panels, these Crosshatch Styles I can cover with the Xhatch.chx and Xhatxh.chx types of Crosshatch Style.
But in a lot of cases I need to add concrete walls to these Sections and I cannot change a Crosshatch Style to a Area Fill.
Has anyone already add a Area Fill to one of the .chx files?
Many thanks,
Currently my workaround is to create a Sketch of that concrete wall in that Section and add a Area to this, but I would rather create these wallls as Solids...
Currently I need for a customer some mixed materials in Section Views, as there are aluminium, steel, glass and wood panels, these Crosshatch Styles I can cover with the Xhatch.chx and Xhatxh.chx types of Crosshatch Style.
But in a lot of cases I need to add concrete walls to these Sections and I cannot change a Crosshatch Style to a Area Fill.
Has anyone already add a Area Fill to one of the .chx files?
Many thanks,
Currently my workaround is to create a Sketch of that concrete wall in that Section and add a Area to this, but I would rather create these wallls as Solids...





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Insert > crosshatch > toggle area fill "on" > follow dialog box
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Cheers
Hudson
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Why hide if you don't require it? I would probably have deleted the crosshatch. Unless this somehow provides me the opportunity to avoid reselecting the boundary I don't see the advantage in keeping it. Is there something that I'm missing?
yours curiously,
Hudson
RE: Area Fill as Crosshatch
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Now I get what you mean. You could on occasion turn off hatching the the view depending on the circumstance as well.
Cheers
Hudson
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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So the idea to add a Concrete Style to one of the .chx-files is that an option, or impossible to do?
Many thanks again...
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I'll answer for John and he can correct me if I'm wrong.
There are basically two ways that you can generate cross-hatching in a drawing view. The first way is by adding a section view and having automatic cross-hatching turned on with or without assembly cross-hatching as required. The Second way is to use the (manual) cross-hatching function to define a boundary to be filled with cross-hatching. The function for adding cross-hatching manually also caters for area fill, whereas the automatic version as applied by the section view does not include any area fill types.
Area fill and cross-hatching are different and separate ways of rendering a pattern over a defined area. If you manually applied the cross hatching in a view you might as well delete it and replace it with a new manually defined area fill. If you automatically cross-hatched in a section view and you want to apply an area fill rather than a hatching style then you need to do so manually. If there is existing hatching in the area you may either hide it or change the view style settings to turn it off. Which of these last two options you would choose to use depends on whether there are other hatched elements in the view that you wish to retain.
Cheers
Hudson
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thanks for the reply,
I am fully aware that there are two different types of hatching: Crosshatch and Area Fill, but the question in this thread is wheater anyone of you added a Area Fill Type to the Unigraphics .chx-files, these .chx-files are the definition files of the standard Crosshatch Styles that you and me can choose from to edit a Crosshatch Style...
This because I create these "Walls" as Solids and Sectioning these in a View with either Assembly Crosshatching On or Off, creates a type of Cross Hatch which I can modify by using the Crosshatch Styles defined in xhatch.chx and xhatch2.chx files, these contain Hatch styles like Steel, Brass/Copper,Aluminium,...
These Types are not what I want I need for one component in this view, I need to havesomething like the Type of Area Fill "Concrete" for one Component in this Section View.
Other hatched elements needs to be remained as Aluminium and steel Crosshatch Style, easy to do these Components.
Hope I explaing it correctly.
Thanks
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Now in the case of an 'Area Fill', it's based on a totally different scheme, more like pattern-replication. Unfortunately the data used to define this 'pattern' is hard-coded into the software so there is nothing available to be edited by the user.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Area fills on the other hand are repeatable patterns of irregular shapes and do not appear to be contained in any files equivalent to the .chx which you can access to chop and change.
I know that maybe the answer still isn't what you'd hoped for but it may be just as well to save you some time.
Best Regards
Hudson
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Many thanks,
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Kirk
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Hudson
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