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Area Hatch/Fill

You can add hatching within boundaries that do not receive automatic hatching. You can apply a crosshatch pattern or solid fill to a model face, to a closed sketch profile, or to a region bounded by a combination of model edges and sketch entities. Area hatch can be applied only in drawings.

Area hatch/fill is applied automatically to section views, aligned section views, and broken-out section views.

Some characteristics of area hatch include the following:

  • If you choose the area hatch to be solid fill, the default color of the fill is black. You can change the color with the Line Color tool on the Line Format toolbar (except in section views).

  • You can include area hatch in blocks.

  • You can move area hatch into layers.

  • You can select an area hatch in a Broken View only in its unbroken state; you cannot select an area hatch that crosses a break.

  • If you change the region boundaries, (for example, if you sketch a rectangle that you want to exclude from the area hatch or fill), you can right-click and select Recreate Area Hatch to update the area.

  • When the pointer is over an area hatch or fill, the pointer changes to .

  • Dimensions or annotations that belong to the drawing view or sketch are surrounded by a halo of space when they are on top of an area hatch or fill. You can override this option.

  • You cannot move an area hatch or fill with Copy or Cut and Paste operations unless the symbol is defined by sketch entities.

To set options for Area Hatch/Fill, click Tools, Options, System Options, Area Hatch/Fill.

To add area hatch or solid fill:

To edit an area hatch or solid fill:



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