Import dwg with Solid Hatch issue

[Anonymous]

I have a drawing in AutoCAD 2013 with carefully laid out hatch patterns for traced text using clean, closed, non-overlapping, polylines only. (with islands in the holes).  When I import this into Inventor sketch the hatch comes through but the islands do not.  Such as the 0 gets completely filled in.  I don't have the ability to edit this hatch and add the islands.

I can import the dwg without hatch and fill it within Inventor, but I need to have all the enpoints constrained, or the Fill command won't reconginze the boundaries.  If I import this with contraining the endpoints, then the import takes a very long time (I gave up after waiting 5 minutes).

Does anybody have any ideas that can help?

jvj

[JDMather]

Can you attach the AutoCAD dwg here?

[Anonymous]

Jamie V. Johnson CAD Manager Description: TTS_FINAL-12 - For Signatures 175 Westwood Drive Southlake TX, 76092 Phone: 817-421-3535 Fax: 817-421-9292 email: jamie.johnson@railegineer.com

[Anonymous]

Thus far, I have separated everything not hatched from the company name, and import the 2 separately.  When I imported the company name with constrained endpoints, I had to maticulously hatch each character of text within inventor.  In AutoCAD I had it all hatched using the hatch by selection mode (solid fill, colors 17,17,17 and 0,17,10)

jvj

[JDMather]

It imported almost instantly for me.

I would do as three parts

1. the logo and sketch text

2. the train logo

3. the typed text

First I converted what I think is the area you wanted to Hatch/Fill to a block in AutoCAD.

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

 I had to maticulously hatch each character of text within inventor

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Maybe I missed something.

It only took 2 or 3 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the AutoCAD block is the key...  I see you got proper island detection.

jvj

[Anonymous]

I have a similar problem. The company logo I am to use was given to me in Autocad where it is hatched properly. However when I import it into the Inventor 2013 titleblock it imports but I cannot hatch it. Could anyone help me out as to how to close the geometry I was given without re-creating the logo? Also I am curious to know if anyone gets it to work as is in 2013.

Thanks in advance