- [Instructor] Inside a SOLIDWORKS, a lot of the features
that we use to create our drawing views
typically automatically add hatching or fills to signify
where things are cutting through materials.
So, we can see here in this section view that I created,
I already have some automatic hatching that exists
but you can also add hatching within boundaries
that did not receive automatic hatching.
So, you can put a solid pattern across hatch pattern
anything you want inside of a closed sketch profile.
So, let's say for example, you want to call out
that you want some sanding in a specific region over here.
So, I'm going to go ahead and use my sketch tool
and I'm going to sketch some lines really quick
and you can see I got that tangency picking me up.
So, I'm going to hit Escape really quick
and just do a box instead,
it's going to be a little bit easier and a little bit quicker.
So, I've got a closed profile right here and it is selected.
If I go up to insert, annotation
and then click on area hatch fill,
it's automatically going to pick up that closed sketch profile
and give me some hatch options so I can do solid,
I can do a typical hatch.
Now, these patterns are actually dictated
by international standards.
So, you can see here ANSI and DIN being called out.
So, based on the material you're using
you should have a specific hatch in mind.
But if you're just trying to label this generally
and it's not really important use whatever works for you
more often than not.
What I find myself doing is applying a solid hatch
actually to a region,
and you can also use a boundary
and select inside of a boundary.
So, I can select down here inside of these two lines
and that creates a boundary.
So a couple of different ways to do that
but when we're done, we hit, okay,
I have a solid fill and it goes to black by default,
but what I can do after the fact is select this fill,
go down here to align color and change this.
So maybe I want to change this to a red or green
so that somebody knows that it's highlighted,
and now if I select off of it, that hatch,
that solid hatch has changed to red.
I can always go back in here
and change it to a typical hatch.
It goes, I think to this Iron BrickStone by default
but you can do something like aluminum or steel.
Just depends on what you're trying to signify.
If you're doing layouts, for example,
this can be really handy because you can show
brass, brick and masonry, clay, concrete,
all the things that come into play
when you're doing construction
and other kinds of formal layouts
that we don't normally do inside of SOLIDWORKS.
The only thing that's really important again to note
is you do need a closed profile that's selected
or a region in which you can select,
and then SOLIDWORKS will automatically
create that area hatch fill.
You do have to be careful though
because sometimes it doesn't always update,
if you change your geometry, for example,
if you move your view around the hatch
is going to stay with it.
But if I do change this whole,
it might not update perfectly.
So, you might have to go and select the hit delete
and create the hatch again, it does happen,
but again, very simple tool,
you just have to select a closed set of geometry
or a closed region.
And just one last time
this is just an empty sketch with a closed profile,
I'm going to right-click on this and say,
select chain, quickly selecting that closed contour
go to annotations, add my area hatch fill and boom
I've got another one over here,
just so we know that we can do this
just on empty geometry as well.