Assembly Cross Hatch in Solidworks

[JimyZ]

I want to create an Assembly Drawing (Slddrw) with Multiple Hatched Views using Solidworks.

Problem: Aluminum Material is a poor hatching for use in assemblies, so I need to change the hatching in the drawing. Then I need to change the hatching in the other views when I create them.

Question: Is there a way to have the other section views automatically update to the new hatching?

James Z

 

[tummen]

Why not go to the source of your problem and instead change the hashing pattern associated with alu in the material database?

 

[ctopher]

Or...
Tools options/System Options/Drawings/Area Hatch-Fill

Chris
SolidWorks 10 SP4.0
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[SnowCrash]

I found this in the knowledge base:
"This is expected behavior as the drawing view always takes the material/ crosshatch from the part, depending on which material is assigned. As the default the drawing view is always uses ISO (Steel) when no material is applied. The area hatch option in system options applies to annotations only (manually created hatch)."
I think you cannot edit the material hatches. You have to copy and create a new material which you can customize.


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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 2.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

 

[ShaggyPE]

Go back to the part, right click on the material in the feature tree. Select edit material. Go to the cross hatch tab and change it to what you want. Then make sure all of your cross hatches in the drawing still are set to material cross hatch.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks

 

[SnowCrash]

ShaggyPE, you must have permissions I don't because all the change options on stock materials are grayed out for me.

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 2.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

 

[SnowCrash]

It would be easier to create a new custom aluminum alloy material with the hatching you want, then change all the parts materials to this custom one. Then the drawing views will all automagically change to the new hatching.

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2011 SP 2.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580