NX6 Solid Fill 1

[jerry1423]

I am working on another person's drawing.
He needed to use Solid Fill on a couple things on his drawing.

When I use Solid Fill it looks more like horizontal crosshatching, and not the "fill" look.
When I double click on his existing solid fill it turns into that horizontal hatching look, and seems to inherit the settings on my computer.

There must be something wrong with the setting on my computer for this, because none of the others here are having this problem.
This is not something that I use very much, so I do not know how long the setting was bad, and I don't know how it got changed.

Where in NX can I adjust the Solid Fill setting so it looks the way it should ?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Exactly how far are you zooming-in so that you think that this is an issue?

After all, as you've already discovered 'Solid Fill' is not really 'SOLID' but rather a very fine horizontal 'crosshatch' (although starting with NX 8.0 you will be able to change the angle).

As to where you can control this default distance between the 'crosshatch' lines, you will need to go to...

Customer Defaults -> Drafting -> Annotation -> Fill/Hatch

...with the parameter labeled 'Stroke Distance for Fill'. Note however, that this setting ONLY effects new Part files therefore this value cannot be changed or edited once a Drawing has been created. So if you're using previously-defined Drawing templates, you will have to recreate them from scratch if the current results are not adaquate for your needs. Please keep in mind that while it is technically possible to set a value for 'Stroke Distance for Fill' which will result in, for intents and purposes, a true SOLID FILL, you would be advised NOT to do that as it can have a significant impact on display performance.

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[Toost]

There is a little trick to edit the distance if it's wrong.
But as John says, normally this should not be an issue.
The logic is that , when plotters used pens, the way to fill an area with color was ..., and since the car isn't broke , don't fix it
( btw the solid fill distance should be equal to the width of the pen whatever that is on a laser... The metric outof the box value

The trick,
adjust your customer defaults, search for "solid fill" and set to a proper value. Restart the session.
Open the part where the solid fill needs correction, right click the solid fill and select "Style", press load default ( and re-select solid fill) Apply.

Then go Preferences - Annotation - fill hatch and press load defaults and OK.
The part now has updated defaults.

Regards,
Tomas