The hatching convention is valid not only for ribs and webs but also for solid cylinders, spokes, nuts, bolts, rivets, keys, wedges, chain rings, ears, solid spheres, if the cutting plane lengtwisely or longitudinally! Unfortunately althogh Autodesk had promissed to overcome this shortcoming i2 years ago still in the latest version, 2011 the problem exist. It is not a good thing to say "Sorry students, Inventor does not know the conventions of mechanical engineering drawing!" for such a professional, huge software. I think Autodesk needs to appoint experts on engineering drawing in software departments.
I look forward to having Inventor fully in accordance with standards and conventions.
Bests,
Dr. Murat Sonmez
METU NCC
@MuratSonmez1863 wrote:The hatching convention is valid not only for ... ......but also for solid cylinders, ..., nuts, bolts, rivets, keys, wedges, chain rings, ...., solid spheres, .....
Dr. Murat Sonmez
METU NCC
Uhmm, Doc - as far as I know Inventor can be set to not hatch these items in assembly drawing views per standards.
Can you post an example where Inventor doesn't conform to standard practice (with these items you listed)?
The original question was about ribs in section. You should have started a new thread.
@MuratSonmez1863 wrote:The hatching convention is valid not only for ribs and webs but also for solid cylinders, spokes, nuts, bolts, rivets, keys, wedges, chain rings, ears, solid spheres, if the cutting plane lengtwisely or longitudinally! Unfortunately althogh Autodesk had promissed to overcome this shortcoming i2 years ago still in the latest version, 2011 the problem exist. It is not a good thing to say "Sorry students, Inventor does not know the conventions of mechanical engineering drawing!" for such a professional, huge software. I think Autodesk needs to appoint experts on engineering drawing in software departments.
I look forward to having Inventor fully in accordance with standards and conventions.
Bests,
Dr. Murat Sonmez
METU NCC
"...nuts, bolts, rivets, keys..." Assembly components can easily be excluded from section participation, but doing the same for part features is virtually impossible.
Following method was offered by one of my students ( Muhammad Askari) 2 years ago, why not say "Askari's Method": For eliminating hatching lines for ribs and webs first create the sectional view and then bring the cursor on the hatching lines, right click and select "hide" option. Then indicate the view left clicking, after that start sketching. apply "project geometry" process. for the boundarylines of the ribs/webs. And then apply filling-hatching process for the surfaces of solid parts cut by the cutting plane, of course excluding the surface of ribs/webs....
Bests,
M Sonmez
@MuratSonmez1863 wrote:
Following method was offered by one of my students ( Muhammad Askari) 2 years ago, ...
M Sonmez
see Tip #58 pg28 (method not described in the paper - but was in the presentation).
http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/skillsusa%20university.pdf
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