Area Hatching in SW Drawings

[craigsmiller]

I'm trying to put a hatch on an area of a part in a drawing to indicate a region to be knurled. I searched and read the past threads on knurling and I don't need to go to the trouble to model the knurl, just indicate on the drawing where it should be done. I want to knurl a cylindrical surface (like a handle) but SW won't put the hatch on a cylinder, only on a planar surface. I've tried this on several models including just a simple circular base extrude but the results are always the same.

I'm using SW2K1 SP2. Is this a bug, a feature, or just me?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Craig Miller

 

[Mandrake22]

Craig,

Try this. On the side view of your cylindrical section, sketch a rectangle and dimension as needed to locate the desired knurled area.

Dimension your rectangle to define the knurled area.

Click Insert,Drawing View, Broken Out section.

Define the section to go to the centerline of your handle.

Edit crosshatch pattern to ISO (Plastic).

That looked good enough for me!

 

[craigsmiller]

Thanks for the idea. Using a Broken Out section didn't work in this case because the handle is hollow (drilled out, I guess I should have mentioned that) so the broken section showed the internal detail and hatched the remaining wall thicknesses.
However, the idea of sketching a rectangle over the area I want to hatch did work. I sketched a rectangle that has relations to the desired area on the view of the part and then clicked Insert, Area Hatch. This hatches the area I want.
Thanks again,
Craig