Hatch Fill

[Kizza]

So I have a rectangle with a basic hatch fill.

I want three of the four lines to be invisible and the fourth thick (0.35)

How do I do this whilst maintaining the integrity of the shape?

[CipesDesign]

I'm not sure I understand your question. A graphic example would be helpful.

[Ray Libby]

Draw a line on top of the rectangle, give it the line weigh you want, then group it with the rectangle. There's no way I know of to do this with just a rectangle.

[Kevin McAllister]

If you trace the rectangle with the polygon tool or the polyline tool you can create a shape that does what you need. Once you create the shape, double click on it to go into polygon/polyline reshape mode. Choose Hide or Show Edges Mode from the Mode Bar. Click on the centre of the sides you want to disappear. You can then add the hatch and delete your original rectangle.

Kevin

Edited January 11, 2012 by Kevin McAllister

[mike m oz]

Try this Kizza:

- Draw the Rectangle and make its attributes as you want them.

- Convert the Rectangle to a Polygon.

- Use the Hide Edge mode of the Reshape tool to hide those sides you don't want to see (what it actually does is converts those sides to a 0.00 pen thickness).

[Kizza]

Thanks, both workarounds do the job.

So if working with rectangles (easier for creating the shape at the correct size) then you could select the rectangle Modify>Convert>Covert to Polygons and then use the Hide or Show Edges to do the dirty work.

An unnecessary extra step though...

[Kizza]

Just beat me to it :grin: :grin:

[Kizza]

Now how would it work if you had say three sides of the rectangle 0.18 and the 4th 0.35 pen thickness?

If you decompose you lose any hatching..

[bc]

Wouldn't you just continue the same workaround and add the three .18 lines (or a single, unfilled polyline), same as you did with the .35?

[Dieter @ DWorks]

Now how would it work if you had say three sides of the rectangle 0.18 and the 4th 0.35 pen thickness?

If you decompose you lose any hatching..

Why would you have different pen thicknesses? The only reason I can think of is because that one side is from another kind of object and that means it is not part of the shape, so you should draw the two.

[Kizza]

An example:

Drawing a roof sheet in section, the top of the rectangle would be in elevation the bottom would be in section.

I want to investigate whether I could get the graphical control to do this without drawing object over object.

[Kizza]

Yep i could - but what we need is a graphical overide ability to be able to change the pen weight on the fly.

I'm looking for similar functionality to the "filled region" tool in Revit. Similar capability doesn't exist in VW by the look of it.