filled region boundary best practice

[Justin Marchiel]

When you create a filled region to show something like an earth hatch, do you set your boundary to invisible, and pull it slightly off the model (so the thick line work shows), or do you use a thick line type to resemble the model and lock it to the model?

I can see advantages and disadvantages to both. I am looking for some other users to give me there experience.

Thanks

Justin

[DanielleAnderson]

When you create a filled region to show something like an earth hatch, do you set your boundary to invisible, and pull it slightly off the model (so the thick line work shows), or do you use a thick line type to resemble the model and lock it to the model?

I can see advantages and disadvantages to both. I am looking for some other users to give me there experience.

Thanks

Justin

I would choose the latter. That way your thick site line will be uniform. If you try to drag an invisible line just slightly off of the thick line, it's hit-or-miss as to whether or not you will actually be in the right place. I typically follow this method with all uses of filled regions (although I try to avoid them whenever possible). Use the pick tool. :)

[rjcrowther]

I agree in using the same line thickness as the model and locking the boundary to the model. I used the invisible line method before I realised that you could set a filled region boundary to any line weight and lock it to the model. So much better in my view: faster and moves with the model.

Rob

[Arnel Aguel]

I do use invisible line boundary for almost all my filled regions then lock the boundary and just send to back so that the model line weight will be on top of the hatch boundary and it works perfect so far.

[rjcrowther]

I do use invisible line boundary for almost all my filled regions then lock the boundary and just send to back so that the model line weight will be on top of the hatch boundary and it works perfect so far.
Nice one, never thought of that.

[Justin Marchiel]

i tired the send to back approach and it didn't seem to work. have to look at that one again.

Justin

[mccurdyks]

Started with the invisible line and the send to back method. Works well when covering model elements, but doesn't work so well when you're creating pure drafting elements that you will cut/paste/modify later, like legend elements. The order tends to get muddled. Because of that I've gotten away from the invisible llines so I don't have to worry about the order.

[cphubb]

We use the appropriate line weight in the filled region to represent edges. We then us the invisible lines to leave any open spaces for breaks etc. Having the lines in there twice really bothers me and makes me think of Autocad. I try not to do that often.

[lhanyok]

i tired the send to back approach and it didn't seem to work.

I'm with Justin on this one. I didn't think that filled regions (or any drafting component for that matter) could be pushed behind model elements.

[statira_architect397891]

hi,
same issue here. cannot send back the filled region placed on a live model. say, I have a section cutting through my concrete stair with concrete pattern set as material cut pattern and now I need to cover up the whole cut surface with a new pattern. The problem is that even the filled region invisible boundary placed right on the model line, will change the lightweight of the cut model. I dont want that. I want my model cut line weight with filled region as a pattern on top of it. hope that makes sense. can you please help?! I need to sort this out before stuffing up the wall sections that I m doing at work for a sensitive project.

[dhurtubise]

Annotations elements are always on top of models. but you can rearrange the order of them though. So when you "push back" you re only moving it under other annotations.
I try to avoid Filled Region ;)

[gbrowne]

When draughting a detail, I generally draw it out in detail lines then copy the lines I need a hatch for, delete them and paste them into a hatch. I feel its 'tidier' that way.

Small point: I just noticed you can scale (make bigger using the scale tool) detail lines, but you can't scale a hatch...

[BillB_UH92]

Statira
Can you just "Edit Boundary" of filled region to be medium line or whatever you need?
The individual segments of the boundary can be changed to be all different line weights, so you have total freedom.
You can also create new line styles