Hidden lines in drawing space

Hidden lines in drawing space

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Hidden lines in drawing space

Anonymous
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I am trying to make hidden lines work in the troubled child of fusion 360, the drawings environment.

 

I have read the different post regarding this problem on this forum, but not found a solution for my problem. 

 

Attached is a simple drawing (scale 1:1) of a cone. the hole inside the cone should appear as dashed lines, but is obvious solid lines. I draw the cone shape to eliminate two lines laying on top of each other, and in a size where i could have it 1:1 on the drawing sheet.

So the question is, how do i make these lines dashed?

 

 

 

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Anonymous
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I have not experienced the problem since the fix. I just tried my old files to see if I could reproduce the problem, but hidden lines work perfect now.

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someonesomewhere111
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It appears when using a larger format default template.  Such as B (17x11)

 

Hidden lines appear solid, as well as hidden holes appear solid.  If I switch to size A the problem does not seem to appear however the title block is now larger than I'd like on prints that I use in house.

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Anonymous
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Strange, I’ve been using mostly B and C size formats and the problem seems
to have gone away for me. I have not, however, gone back and edited the
title block at all since I created the template at the beginning of the
project.
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Anonymous
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oh... I only have the A series as defined by the ISO 216 available in the dropdown menu. I can see that the menu have a heading called "ISO Standard" (menu appears when pushing the "sheet settings" icon in the bottom of the drawings environment). 

 

I assume that one is using ANSI standard when you have the B size and C size! Maybe the fix made to the code only cover the ISO standard - e.g. the code is forked in ISO and ANSI?

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espacoinvisiveis
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From the screenshot and description, it sounds like Fusion 360 is treating those edges as visible geometry rather than hidden features in the drawing view. A couple of things I'd check:

  1. Make sure the drawing view style is actually set to show hidden edges. Sometimes the view remains in "Visible Edges Only" even when the model clearly contains internal geometry.

  2. If the hole was created after the original drawing view was generated, try updating or recreating the view. I've seen cases where hidden lines don't refresh correctly until the view is rebuilt.

  3. Also verify that the internal cut isn't coincident with another edge in the projection direction, because Fusion can occasionally display overlapping edges as a single visible line.

As a side note, if you're using special characters or formatting tricks in CAD annotations, usernames, or documentation, tools like Invisible Space can be useful for inserting characters that aren't immediately visible but still affect spacing and layout.

Can you share the drawing view properties panel? That would make it easier to see whether this is a display setting issue or a geometry issue.

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