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StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 27, 2018
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Default Cross Hatch

  • March 27, 2018
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Someone just asked me a question about setting the default x-hatching. I had never thought about it but we often change the x-hatching on a drawing to steel. I use a mapkey to do this but if there was a way to make the cross hatching default to steel, that would make at least one user happy.

    Best answer by TrainStopper

    I setup all of my material files with crosshatch definition, so when I assign/change the material, the crosshatch automatically updates to the ANSI/ASME standard for that material.

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    March 27, 2018

    I don't know of anything that is even helpful, much less targeted for managing x-hatches for drawings.

     

    I dread x-hatching massive sections 😐

     

    Therefore, I too am all ears on -ANY- settings that can help x-hatch generation.

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    TrainStopper12-AmethystAnswer
    12-Amethyst
    March 27, 2018

    I setup all of my material files with crosshatch definition, so when I assign/change the material, the crosshatch automatically updates to the ANSI/ASME standard for that material.

      StephenW
      StephenW23-Emerald IIIAuthor
      23-Emerald III
      March 28, 2018

      Hmmm, we don't use the material assignment here. I will look in to this to see if I can take advantage of it though. It may be worthwhile to use it depending on the benefits I can get out of it.

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      MartinHanak24-Ruby III
      24-Ruby III
      March 28, 2018

      Hi,

       

      following picture belongs to CR2 M070

      xh.png

       

      Creo will use steel.xch hatching pattern in this case.

      StephenW
      StephenW23-Emerald IIIAuthor
      23-Emerald III
      March 29, 2018

      Just a couple of notes:

      We don't use material files here (I have used them in the past). So adding material as an aid to x-hatching is probably not going to save time if that is the only reason I am using them for. 

       

      I did find in my old files a set of mapkeys that was used at a long ago previous company that iterated through x-hatching on a view and would generate some very reasonable results. Unfortunately they are from many years ago, may be pre-Wildfire. I really doubt they are going to just work but since old mapkeys are basically read-able commands, I'm going to first try them as is, then, if needed, try to rebuild them as necessary.

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      ndele10-Marble
      10-Marble
      December 2, 2019

      Hey there,

       

      A bit of an old topic, but something that just came up with us as well. We recently started using the material properties to assign hatching to parts. Using the config file option "default_hatch_type PAT" seems to make it so when you create a new section, it's based automatically off the material assigned. This seems to only work on the part level and not on assemblies: does anyone know why this is?

       

      Thanks,

      Nick

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        MartinHanak24-Ruby III
        24-Ruby III
        December 3, 2019
        @ndele wrote:

        Hey there,

         

        A bit of an old topic, but something that just came up with us as well. We recently started using the material properties to assign hatching to parts. Using the config file option "default_hatch_type PAT" seems to make it so when you create a new section, it's based automatically off the material assigned. This seems to only work on the part level and not on assemblies: does anyone know why this is?

         

        Thanks,

        Nick

        Hi,

        please explain in detail what doesn't work in Assembly mode.

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        ndele10-Marble
        10-Marble
        December 3, 2019

        Hey MartinHanak,

         

        We assigned a material (ex: steel) to a part that defined the crosshatching. When we create a new section, the cross hatching is automatically set to steel. This is only the case with "default_hatch_type PAT".

         

        We create a new assembly with the previous part. When we create a new section, the cross hatching isn't set to steel. Is there a way to keep the cross hatching we had from the part?

         

        Most of our components are steel and it would be nice if we could default the hatching to steel (unless otherwise edited like the angle or scale).

         

        Thanks,

        Nick

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