Hatching rules & controls 1

[cfee]

I have a moderately extensive assembly I've just sectioned.
1. The basic rules for things like not cutting fasteners in the cutting plane (leave them "round" in place), and tighter paterns for smaller components with looser pattens for larger, and changing pattern direction per COMPONENT not per SUBASSEMBLY (welded components notwithstanding) DON'T seem to be followed. Are there "settings" for these things?

2. Is there a way to edit these things once the section view has been generated (even if I had overlooked pre-setting the settings) ?

Accurate representation of components in assemblies is another critical Draft issue (in addition to the viloations posted in a previous thread).

Any suggestions?

Thanks-
C. Fee

 

[JamesBarlow]

As far as I know there is now way to pre-set the types of settings you are talking about.

For bolts and other items which you don't want to hatch just right click on the view and select properties. Then choose the display tab. From here you can select each individual part and decide what is hatched and what is not.

To change the hatch patterns right click the view again and select draw in view. From there you will be able select each hatch section and change it.

Concerning accurate representation, this is kind of hit or miss for me. Most of the time everything is good, but once in a while I will get a phantom line, or be missing something that should be there.

This is all rather tedious for a large assembly, but it is 1,000,000,000 times better than when I had to make assemblys in AutoCAD.

 

[cfee]

Thanks for your reply! Its just what I was looking for!!

In Autocad, I'd Auto-extract the 2-d view from the solid model collect the elements into a group, place them on the correct layer, no matter how large my assembly. Then I have immediate access to EVERY aspect of every part, including complete Part-to-View associativity (the same direction, by the way, as S-E). Remembering the majic of layer 0, I can change the color, density and about a dozen other issues with single commands, no matter how many components are in the parent assembly! If however, I just want the part colors (among other things) in the parent assembly to filter down and control components in extracted 2d & 3D(!) assemblies, I can just accept defaults. All of this mind you, with standard ACAD, with NO add-ins! No, Familiarity with the tool is the real key. I can have an experienced 2-D drafter fully executing multi-hundred part 3D assemblies (including directly linked 2D-assy dwgs...) with 16-24 hrs of instruction. How? There's a single majic bullet. Interested?