Generating Hatched Areas from 3D Specifications

You can generate associative 2D hatched areas in generative views from a dedicated 3D specification.

For this, you need to create a dedicated Note Object Attribute (NOA) in the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation app, to store the 3D specification. For more information about Note Object Attribute, see 3D Tolerancing & Annotation User's Guide: Note Object Attributes.

Before you begin: Open a drawing representation of a product containing a pad.
See Also
Creating a View using Generative View Styles
About Generating Hatched Areas from 3D Specifications
  1. Create a dedicated Note Object Attribute associated to a 3D face in the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation app.
    For more information, see 3D Tolerancing & Annotation User's Guide: Note Object Attributes: Creating Note Object Attribute from a Text.



    Notes:
    • The Note Object Attribute can be associated to one face, several faces or relimited faces.
    • The Note Object Attributes associated to features or wire-frame objects are not processed during the view update to create 2D hatched areas.
  2. Go to Me > Preferences > App Preferences > 3D Modeling > Mechanical Systems > Drafting > Administration tab, and clear the Disable generative view style usage check box.
    This activates the generative view style functionality.
  3. Go to Me > Preferences > Standards. In the standards editor, select the generativeparameters category, and then select the DefaultGenerativeStyle.xml from the File list.
  4. Then, for example, go to DefaultGenerativeStyle > FunctionalTolerancingAndAnnotation > NoteObjectAttribute > TechnologicalAreaGeneration > TechnologicalAreaForFTA > NOAExtractedType and specify the type of NOA.

    Important: You need to specify the same NOA type as defined in the 3D Tolerancing & Annotation app.
    Notes:
    • Only dedicated typed Note Object Attribute which is set in the generative view style, associated with the view, is used to generate 2D hatched areas.
    • This dedicated Note Object Attribute is taken into account by the extraction process and it can also be instantiated from a catalog.

  5. Save this configured generative view style with a suitable name, say G1.
    You can use this generative view style for further operations.
  6. From the View Layout section of the action bar, click Front View .

    Important: Note that 3D typed NOA specifications are only extracted in exact projection views.

  7. In the Generative view style toolbar, select the generative view style G1 defined in step 4.
  8. In the work area, select a plane of the 3D part or a plane surface, to define the reference plane.
  9. Click inside the sheet to generate the view.
    3D NOA type specification is extracted in this 2D view as a hatched area.