boundry hatch

[Mini-Systems]

I created a model of a part and brought it into a idw. I want to put a boundry hatch in certain parts. Is there a way to do this in inventor?

[JDMather]

Create sketch in view.
Project Geometry the boundary (and/or sketch the boundary).
Select the Hatch tool to fill.  (see attached)

all of this assumes you aren't doing a simple Section View which would be easier and create the hatch for you.

[Mini-Systems]

Right it is not a cross section view. It sections of a part I want to show as different materials.

I trying doing a sketch and projecting geometery but that button is greyed out and doesnt work even if I highlight lines.

[JDMather]

Then you are doing a sheet level sketch rather than a view level sketch.
Click on the boundary of the view - it should turn red.
Hit s on the keyboard (do not move your mouse).

[rschader]

I can create a sketch and project the boundaries fine, but 95% of the time Inventor doesn't recognise it as a closed boundary to allow hatching it. Most of the projected curves are not simple lines or arcs and I think that is part of the problem. It would be nice if Inventor had a "Hatch Face" command instead. I realize I could probably do something like that using shaded views, and sometimes I have resorted to that, but it's not easy to plot on a B&W plotter like we have here. Using Inventor 2010.

[JDMather]

attach file that exhibits this behavior here.

[rschader]

I haven't bothered to try doing this for awhile. I will try to put something together sometime and post it here.

[rschader]

Here is a small example of the typical parts I have to work with. It has 2 mating surfaces which I projected to the view sketch but it won't let me hatch them. They appear to be closed as far as I can see. You can turn off the normal visible layers to see the projected areas. Note that I could only attach the drawing as the part file makes the attachment too large for this place!

[rschader]

No idea why it attached the drawing zipfile twice?

[rschader]

And a week later, Nothing!

[JDMather]

I don't have 2010.

[rschader]

JD,

So you had no problems getting Inventor 2012 to hatch the existing projected surface boundaries? Too bad I can't get my employer to spring for an upgrade these days!

Bob

[JDMather]

I did have to find the problem areas.  It wasn't automatic.

[rschader]

My take is that "not automatic" is not acceptable as a solution. Sorry, JD.