A Better Way To Hatch in 3D

Sometimes you run into a situation where you want to hatch faces in a model to show on a drawing sheet. If you do this with the regular 2D manual hatching tool and just click on faces, they will show through the unhatched faces of the model like this:

A better way to do this is to take advantage of textures in the 3D model. By adding a texture (and you can make your own) you can essentially hatch directly on the model in 3D and simply show the model that way by making the view shaded in the drawing sheet, like this:

Comments

[Josh]

I like showing shaded views in drawings, but the customers don't always like it. great tip though!