X hatching in WF 3.0 drawing mode

Hi,

I have been on WF for a couple of weeks. I am finding it hard to change
hatching spacing, color etc in drawing mode. Sometimes I can, sometimes
I can't. I can put the cursor over a view and in one view it will
pre-select the hatching, in another view it won't. What else can I do
to select the hatching?

Gra

 

I'm sorta wondering if it's a parent / child view thing, i.e. detail of xsec; must make changes in the xsec (?). Can't remember,
off hand.

It could be an RMB to cycle focus thing.
RMB -> Pick from List. -or-
Set the selection filter to 'xsec'.

 

It's a general view that won't pick up the hatching, the only view in
that sheet. The view that does pick up the hatching is another sheet of
the same drawing, which shows a section through a plane normal to the
uncooperative one. The views are not related except that they have the
same model.

I could tell you some more but I'm making a list at the moment.... I
like some of the WF functionality tho.

 

Jeff's advice was good and there are a few different selection methods which
he mentioned. The really new thing in selection is selection filters (lower
right popup list) and the composition of the list of available filters
responds to the function you are trying to perform. But Xsec is definitely
in the selection set for drawing items. When you have selected it (turns
red), RMB 'Properties' and you'll get the old Menu Manger menu that allows
you to adjust angle, spacing, line style, etc.

BTW, selection is one of the bigger changes in WF over previous revs.
Anything you can do, including online tutorials, to get better acquainted
with the new selection tools, the better off you'll be.

David Janes

 

Hi Dave, I already tried all the selection tools before I posted but
no luck. I guess it's one of those ProE mysteries, like "why does the
round work on this side, but not that that side?" kind of thing.

Bits of Wildfire I like, like the Ctrl C, Ctrl V thing, but even with
that you have to backtrack if you want to select geom in a different
way to what is available initially. It's been a long week.

 

The last thing I'd suggest is to see if the section/crosshatch didn't wind
up on a layer; could it be involved in an annotation feature? The best place
to track a lot of this stuff down is in the model, especially if the section
was created there with the View Manager. Could this depend on what kind of
section this is? 'Offset' being the flakiest because it doesn't require the
cutline to be parallel to the screen [can be angled].

David Janes

 

Nah, no annotation. The section was created in the assembly model. If I
go back to change it there then I have to change the view in the drw
back to "No sec", then change it again to the section... or retrieve a
different section then retrieve the original one back again.

There's always another way to do it in ProE. My problem is when the
other way takes longer than the first way, and I can't do it the first
way any more. It's supposed to get easier, not harder with each new
release.

 

It's been a complaint for quite a while that sections seem history dependent
(because they cut through the components that exist at the time of creation)
but don't appear in the feature tree and don't regenerate gracefully (if at
all) when the assembly changes. I thought, maybe, by now, the xsec might
have made its way into the feature tree. In that case, it could also be
placed in the Footer region (where it will remain hidden, but regenerate
when the assembly regenerates; and I believe you need to get it out of the
footer to work on it.) Is there a Footer, beyond the Insert bar? Click the
plus, see if your cross section is in there. Generally, for things to get
into the Footer, you need to manually, deliberately place them there by
selecting the object and selecting "Move to Footer". Maybe there's a setting
to automatically do that?

David Janes

David Janes

 

What's a footer?
Wish we could do jpegs.

 

What's a footer?

Help
Fundamentals
Working with the Model
Regenerating the Model
About the Regeneration Footer

 

Ah. Very interesting. A little light reading. I will get to that after
Thanksgiving. Thanks.