topic Re: How do I change hatch boundary color? in Inventor Forum

How do I change hatch boundary color?

KhoiNguyen6224 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:18:08 GMT

Hi all

I'm a new Inventor user so I don't know how can I change the hatch boundary color in the Inventor drawing? Please help me.

Thank you

Khoi Nguyen

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

SharkDesign — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:22:28 GMT

How did you do the boundary? Is it geometry or a sketch?

Either way, you select the boundary lines (ctrl click for multiple) right click and choose properties.

Like this:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/e34b850d-50a6-4a2e-b557-1a29009c2851

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

-niels- — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:26:49 GMT

You can change it in several locations:

For an overall color change for the entire drawing, use edit layers:

For individual hatches, right-click on the one you want to change and select "edit" then choose the desired color:

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

KhoiNguyen6224 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:28:35 GMT

It's section view of geometry so I have too much hatch boundary to change by select them.

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

SharkDesign — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:30:08 GMT

My solution is the boundary colour and Neils is the actual hatch.

Take your pick on what you need.

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

KhoiNguyen6224 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:31:35 GMT

I want to change "hatch boundary" color not "hatch" color .

Thank you

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

SharkDesign — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:33:29 GMT

follow my video as shown for boundary.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/e34b850d-50a6-4a2e-b557-1a29009c2851

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

SharkDesign — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:35:02 GMT

p.s. Inventor is not like AutoCAD. There isn't really a boundary on hatches. It's either a sketch that you draw, or it's projected geometry.

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

-niels- — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:39:15 GMT

@KhoiNguyen6224 wrote:

I want to change "hatch boundary" color not "hatch" color .

Thank you

Ok, guess i misunderstood... let's blame it on Monday morning 😅

Still not sure if i fully understand the "hatch boundary"... there's "detail boundary" in the layers... could be that...

It's likely part of a layer, if you can select the geometry then it should tell you which layer it belongs to on the dropdown in the top-right on the annotate tab. (next to the "edit layers" button)

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

KhoiNguyen6224 — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:51:07 GMT

I see that Inventor detects projected geomatry to hatch, it must detects boundary. 
I don't know is there any API or iLogic to change it's color?
Thank you

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

SharkDesign — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 06:54:55 GMT

I don't think this would be possible in API either. Inventor doesn't save it as a feature, it is just part of a sketch, so trying to pick that out with some iLogic code would be very difficult.

When you project the geometry, that is not a hatch boundary, it is just projected sketch geometry.

When you hatch it, Inventor is just filling an area and looking for the sketch lines. How this is notated on the software side of things and whether it know it's a boundary or just creates a hatched area is something that probably only the devs could answer.

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

johnsonshiue — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:50:44 GMT

Hi! The hatch pattern color is driven by the hatch style or the material. Please share an example that you are working on. Forum experts can take a look to propose the best workflow.

Many thanks!

Re: How do I change hatch boundary color?

SharkDesign — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:54:15 GMT

Hi Johnson, it's the boundary colour they want to change like you can in
autocad.
Only way I know is to select the lines you're using and change the colour
through the properties button.