Explode hatch in sketch with iLogic

[m.weers]

For laser cutting and engraving a dxf is made from Inventor dwg.

A wood hatch is placed in a sketch to engrave certain areas in the view.

I like to explode the hatch with iLogic when exporting the drawing as DXF file. (My laser software cannot handle hatches)

I there a way to explode this hatch with Ilogic?

Best regards,

Maarten Weers

[ianteneth]

Hi @m.weers,

I think a picture would help make your question more clear. Also, I am not sure what you mean by "explode". Do you mean "delete" maybe?

[m.weers]

Inside a view, a user can start a new sketch. Inside this sketch a hatch can be placed manually. 
I like to transform (explode) this hatch to individual lines with ilogic when i am creating a dxf file from my inventor drawing.

Maarten Weers

[WCrihfield]

Unfortulately it's not that simple.  A Hatch, like a Fill, or a texture, is based on an image, not actual geometry.  You would need to Vectorize it.  That is a process which Image editors use to convert images to lines, curves, etc.

[m.weers]

But why can a hatch be exploded in autocad without issues?
so the knowledge is available at Autodesk.

[WCrihfield · Accepted solution]

Autocad simply does hatches differently than Inventor does.  I know you can export your Inventor IDW to a DWG, then open it in Autocad and exploce the hatch, but I've never heard of a 'native' way to do this on Inventor's side.  In Inventor, you can't snap to individual pieces of hatch geometry, can't measure length of line segments within it, and can't measure area between segments within the hatch.

The Autodesk Inventor 2021 API Object Model, is the first release to have a pre-defined "DrawingHatchPatternsManager" Object, and a "DrawingHatchPattern" object.  But they still do not have a method to explode it.  Below is a link to their online help page for that API Object.

DrawingHatchPattern Object