cfee
Industrial
- Apr 22, 2002
- 491
I'm hatching in a view to highlight a construction material. When I print one drawing using a particular hatch pattern scale, I get one result, and when I print another drawing, very nearly the same scale, I get a very different result. Yes, the hatch scale in 1st dwg is the same as in the 2nd. However, the printed result is very different. Is there a way to control this result?
Also, what's up with S.E.'s edge detection approach? Invisible hidden lines in my ISO view are detected as edges, and I often have to zoom way in to complete the proper coverage of the region. With lots of crossing edges, this can make the task impossible.
Also, edges that properly cross and create what should be closed regions often seem to not, with no way to close the region, causing hatch pattern to spill out into undesired areas. With no way to control this, I have to leave whole patches in my draft view as un-hatched voids! Either I forego hatching the area entirely, or live with the voids?
In ACAD, I can set the scale, and no matter what size the print, the pattern follows the scale up or down. I'm aware that the S.E. approach to hatch scaling is an attempt to mitigate those FEW cases where the end print is of a scale that renders the pattern too close to be recognizable, but even those few instances are unremarkable, because they are almost always archive plots, intended for file storage _only_ (as in the case of an A-Size plot of an E-Size drawing, filed in a flie folder...). but with the ACAD approach, I ALWAYS get a predictable result, and I can choose which settings to apply, based on my awareness of the end-uses of the drawing. As for the hatch region issue, it doesn't even exist in ACAD. I know these aren't 3D modeling questions, but they are very relevant in a production oriented arena.
Thanks-
C. Fee
Also, what's up with S.E.'s edge detection approach? Invisible hidden lines in my ISO view are detected as edges, and I often have to zoom way in to complete the proper coverage of the region. With lots of crossing edges, this can make the task impossible.
Also, edges that properly cross and create what should be closed regions often seem to not, with no way to close the region, causing hatch pattern to spill out into undesired areas. With no way to control this, I have to leave whole patches in my draft view as un-hatched voids! Either I forego hatching the area entirely, or live with the voids?
In ACAD, I can set the scale, and no matter what size the print, the pattern follows the scale up or down. I'm aware that the S.E. approach to hatch scaling is an attempt to mitigate those FEW cases where the end print is of a scale that renders the pattern too close to be recognizable, but even those few instances are unremarkable, because they are almost always archive plots, intended for file storage _only_ (as in the case of an A-Size plot of an E-Size drawing, filed in a flie folder...). but with the ACAD approach, I ALWAYS get a predictable result, and I can choose which settings to apply, based on my awareness of the end-uses of the drawing. As for the hatch region issue, it doesn't even exist in ACAD. I know these aren't 3D modeling questions, but they are very relevant in a production oriented arena.
Thanks-
C. Fee