hatching in assembly drawing

[JEMMERICH]

can i change the scale or density of the hatch in an assembly drawing or draft? some of the parts look correctly hatched others you can barely see the lines they are spaced so far apart when i print it

 

[KENAT]

Go to draw in view. (right click on view to get there)

Select the relevant hatching and then you can adjust spacing in the bar above.

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[Gemnoc]

This is something that highly annoys me. Not only the system arbitrarly rotates the hatch pattern, but it also doubles its spacing half the time. If I set my hatch pattern style to 1/8" spacing, I don't want it to be 1/4"!!!

 

[beachcomber]

Don't know whether you've noticed, but the spacing stays the same on screen when you zoom in & out.
When you print a drawing at a smaller scale (say an A0 printed at A3)the hatching will not look the same as on-screen.
In cases like this check the option "Scale Line Types" on your print dialog and the spacing will be scaled accordingly.

bc

 

[Gemnoc]

I know, beachcomber, what I'm saying is, if I have a section view which cuts through different parts, the hatch spacing will vary from the original value between the parts (along with the angle) and that, when printing. If there's an option somewhere to disable this, could you tell me where it is?

Thanks

 

[KENAT]

SE assings a different patter to different parts, or at least to parts touching each other. To do this it varies angle and spacing.

For small parts it sometimes selects to big a spacing.

As alluded to above the spacing you set is the spacing printed 1 to 1, not the spacing you usually see on screen.




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[Gemnoc]

As I already told beachcomber, I'm perfectly aware that the hatching gets scaled on screen as you zoom in/out. This is not what I'm complaining about. What I don't like is the printout. I print mainly on Letter format paper, hence resulting section views are not very big. I've set the hatch spacing accordingly, but then SE doubles it on half the sectioned parts and I have to manually set it right again with drawing in view. For almost every section view that I create. It's frustrating. If it could only rotate the patterns to differentiate the parts, and nothing else...

P.S. Yes, I know I'm kind of fussy. But so you know, I still love the software. ;-)

 

[KENAT]

Have you contacted the Solid Edge helpline assuming you have up to date maintenance?

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[Gemnoc]

No, and yes, I have maintenance. You're right, I don't call them enough.

 

[KENAT]

Me either, I find it a time consuming pain and half the time get a faster/better/more practical answer here.

I'll dig through help and post questions here before phoning them, not sure why.

Another colleague is the opposite, I swear he calls them once a week, sometimes more.

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[Gemnoc]

Yeah, I'm obstinate and want to solve things on my own, so I really have to be stomped to call for help.

But I call my reseller, not UGS' help line. They are really helpful, and answer quickly. The salesguy even encouraged me to call them as often as I wish. I hope my boss will keep the maintenance next year.

 

[KENAT]

Could be the obstinate thing.

On the plus side I've discovered a lot of useful things by chance when going through help looking for something else.

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