How to break hatching for dimension lines and notes

• Dec 9, 2014

• #2

JNieman

Aerospace

Mar 26, 2014

1,128

I'm not sure of any setting that'll do that automatically. Sounds like you are hatching int he same area you are placing text annotations which makes things murky.

My suggestion is that you freeze the layer containing your annotations and dimensions, create the hatch, then unfreeze the layer.

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NX8.0, Solidworks 2014, AutoCAD, Enovia V5

 

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• Dec 9, 2014

• #3

Occupant

Mechanical

Dec 8, 2006

355

What I usually do is draw an island (polylines usually) around the object and use them as an isolated area not to hatch.

 

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• Dec 9, 2014

• #4

IFRs

Petroleum

Nov 22, 2002

4,676

For text, make it MText and put a background on it. For Dimensions or Multi-Leaders use a style that uses the drawing color as the background for the text. Draw it all before hatching, use island polygons for the rest. FOr solid objects like arrows, set them to be on top of the hatch, or in PaperSpace and have PaperSpace plotted last.

 

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• Dec 9, 2014

• Thread starter
• #5

frankreid

Mechanical

Mar 9, 2007

92

That was a good workaround. It worked great.
I use different CAD programs and forget which does what.
Thanks so much.

Frank Reid
Reid Engineering Services of Utah

 

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• Apr 9, 2015

• #6

cfee

Industrial

Apr 22, 2002

491

Try selecting the TEXT or the DIMENSION while selecting hatch boundary items in the hatch command. I think you'll like the results !

Good luck ! -

-C.

 

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• May 7, 2015

• #7

11echo

Petroleum

Jun 4, 2002

444

Use the "wipeout" command and make your life easy!

 

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• May 15, 2015

• #8

Signious

Industrial

Oct 21, 2014

221

I usually just place the dimensions and annotations on a separate layer, then turn the layer off when I do my hatching / shading.

 

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• May 16, 2015

• #9

maripali

Mechanical

Mar 15, 2014

63

I usually set Dimension Text Fill Color to Background in the Dimension Modify dialog box.
When putting the dimensions over any hatches or lines its simply overlay and hide text area.

 

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