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No hatch lines in section view

manneschmiet — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:59:49 GMT

I'm trying to section a drawing, and while creating the section view is easy, there are no hatch lines on the section views. I've attached the drawing I'm working with.

Re: No hatch lines in section view

CCarreiras — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:06:10 GMT

Hi!

Your part is just a composite surface... a shell... doesn't have a solid body, so, you can have a section of "nothing".

To have a section, first You have to turn the surfaces into a solid body.

Re: No hatch lines in section view

manneschmiet — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:17:02 GMT

How do I convert it to a solid body?

Re: No hatch lines in section view

JDMather — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:59:47 GMT

@manneschmiet wrote:

How do I convert it to a solid body?

@manneschmiet

Right click and select Repair Bodies...

Select All

Well that didn't work - so we need to dig deeper...

Stitch shows where the issues are...

We enter the Construction Environment and see that there are surfaces that should not exist in the model...

In some cases there are duplicate surfaces overtop of each other...

Re: No hatch lines in section view

kacper.suchomski — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:25:07 GMT

Use Stitch or Sculpt

Edit:

@JDMather You're right.

I was reading this post on my phone and didn't check that the geometry is broken.
Thank you for feedback.

Re: No hatch lines in section view

JDMather — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:11:01 GMT

@kacper.suchomski

Can you demonstrate how to use Stitch or Sculpt with this geometry?

Re: No hatch lines in section view

manneschmiet — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:31:13 GMT

Yep, still stuck. I was sent this drawing as an IGS, but don't know have anything else to use to correct it, no other original info.

Re: No hatch lines in section view

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:41:10 GMT

@manneschmiet

Can you Attach the original IGES file here?

Re: No hatch lines in section view

manneschmiet — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:48:26 GMT

Hmmm, I tried to attach the file, but it said that .igs files are not supported and I couldn't attach it. What next?

The file type (.igs) is not supported. Valid file types are: 3dp, 3ds, 3mf, ach, ai, art, anc, arp, ass, asx, avi, axm, bm, bmp, brd, cam, cfz, chm, cps, csv, dbf, dcl, doc, docx, dru, dst, dwf, dwfx, dwg, dws, dwt, dxf, dyf, dyn, eco, env, eps, esri, f3d, f3z, fbx, fm, gif, gz, gzip, iam, ics, ide, idw, iks, ipn, ipt, jfif, jpe, jpeg, jpg, lbr, lin, log, lsp, ma, mac, max, mb, mcr, mkv, mov, mp4, mpg, msg, mwv, nc, nc1, nwc, nwd, nwf, obj, obk, pat, pc3, pdf, pkt, png, ppt, pptx, prj, pro, psd, rar, rfa, rft, rlf, rtd, rte, rvt, sat, sch, sdf, sdf, sdf2, sdf3, shp, shx, simstudio, sldasm, slddrw, sldprt, sol, spf, step, stl, stm, step, stp, svf, svg, tap, text, tif, tiff, txt, ulp, vcf, vtf, vtfx, wmv, xls, xlsx, xml, xps, zip, mix.

Re: No hatch lines in section view

CCarreiras — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:08:03 GMT

After some struggling... here is the solid...

I will not explain how to do it... (to complex)... but I can give you the part, and now you can have the sections,

Re: No hatch lines in section view

manneschmiet — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:06:58 GMT

That's incredible because I know it wasn't simple and took far more than I could fathom to solve. Thank you.