topic Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ? in Inventor Programming Forum

Access hatch angle through i logic ?

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:53:13 GMT

I am using an main assembly that has aprox. 4K parts, most of them steel.

Most sub-assemblys also have a lot of parts in them.

When i make sections on the drawings, i get loads of hatches where it sets the hatch angles in all kind of directions.

As its a pain in the behind to select each of them 1 by one and setting them back to 0, i was wondering if i can somehow make a rule for this in ilogic.

Basicly i just want it to find all the hatches and set the angle of the pattern to 0.

Is this possible through ilogic ?

if not, is there some other way to prevent the hatches getting al kinds of angles ?

thanks in adavance.

Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

Balaji_Ram — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:25:07 GMT

Hi,

This can be done by modifying the current style's preset value for "Section Hatch Angle".

You can have all the listed values removed except the one that you want to use.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/07/fix-hatch-angle-in-section-view.html

Regards,

Balaji

Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:35:55 GMT

As some sections need to be rotated after placement, i still end up with all kind of angles.

Is there no way to do this with iLogic, or maybe even with a API plugin ?

Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

Balaji_Ram — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 18:25:29 GMT

Sorry, this is not part of the API yet.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideastation/hatch-object-api/idi-p/5418183

Regards,

Balaji

Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

brianM328K — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:48:06 GMT

Hi All

I'm Guessing that after 8 Years we still don't a fix for this.

As I would like some way to mass change or pick a selection then adjust the angle of the hatch.

Regards Brian

Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

WCrihfield — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:07:38 GMT

Hi @brianM328K. Actually, there may be hope for that request. In the 2022 version of Inventor, they started introducing some API for accessing the hatch areas of drawing views. However, there are multiple layers involved in this 'onion'.

DrawingView.HatchRegions

DrawingViewHatchRegions

DrawingViewHatchRegion

DrawingViewHatchRegion_Angle

Re: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

brianM328K — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:18:58 GMT

Hello All and @Anonymous

If anyone is still interested in drawing sketch hatch manipulation, you may like the attached code. Its something I have been working on.

(Note: this code will edit all hatches in that view. If any one knows how to select a small group of hatches only Please let me know)

Betreff: Access hatch angle through i logic ?

r_pruellage — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:22:43 GMT

Hello, thanks for your work. The code looks good. Based on your code:

I want to change the angle in 90°, the size of 0,05 and an offset of 11mm in a Drawing when "hatch pattern A" is used.

The code has to change all hatches in every view on a sheet. Is this possible?