Show hole hidden Lines inside of an revolved feature

[Anonymous]

Hi Community

I'm making a tooling print for a company and struggling to find how to show the hidden lines of the hole through the revolved feature. It does not show in 2d Wireframe in model space nor the layout.

To make it simple if you revolve any simple shape then try to (1)draw an cylinder through the revolved feature, (2)extrude/presspull the hole/cylinder through the revolved feature, then (3) subtract ; the hole will be present, but the hidden/inner lines doesn't show.  

When I draw a simple cylinder and complete the same steps the hidden hole lines show. what's the reason?

Layout/Model Example 1-Cylinder With Hole

Layout/Model Example 2-Relvolved Feature with Hole

Please HELP,

Kind Regards,

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

welcome @Anonymous.autodesk.com!

Your screenshot looks like you have not worked with 3D-Solids, it looks more like surfaces. That should be corrected.

A DWG file would help us to better identify waht you do have.

To generate views with hidden lines try command _VIEWBASE, makes a lot of things much easier:

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your quick response, But that's not the issue. See attached basic drawing to give you an idea of the problem I'm facing. The model shows the through hole, but in layout view the through hole hidden lines are not present.

I think I figured out why. Before revolving the feature all lines must be joined. Only then would the through hole lines show. The actual model I'm working with I don't have at home & I'm close to completion. I don't want to re-draw the entire model, just because of some lines not being joined early on. How can I make this work without starting over?

sorry 4 some reason it wont allow to me to attached the drawing.

Kind Regards,

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> sorry 4 some reason it wont allow to me to attached the drawing.

Make a small sample object in a new drawing and upload this new drawing.

>> but in layout view the through hole hidden lines are not present

From your screenshots I don't see anything wrong or correct, just a view lines which might be ok or not. I even can't see if that is the layout or modelspace.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Thanks Alfred for all your help! It was my internet explorer that wouldn't allow me to upload the drawing. Security settings I suppose.

See attached drawings now. What I would like to do is show the hidden lines for the through hole as seen in Forming Punch drawing (1) Layout view

Forming Punch 1-Shows through hole hidden lines

Forming Punch 2-Does not show hidden through hole line ( I Did not join lines before revolving feature)

Thanks,

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

and the difference is what I told you already at the first response, In drawing "xxx(1).dwg" you have a 3D-Solid, in the ohter drawing ("xxx(2).dwg") your object is a surface, that makes the difference.

Make sure your polyline is closed before you start the _REVOLVE command (and within the command verify with parameter _MODE that objects of type "SOlid"s are created).

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Ok- Makes sense, and I figured it out that's why two drawings were attached, but again to my original question, Do I have to start over? or can I somehow make the object a solid? The actual drawing I am working on is 90% complete with many features. I would hope I didn't have to start completely over.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Figured it out. Converted surface to solid. Thanks for your help leading me in the direction to resolve my issue.

Kind Regards,