Tutorial: Creating standard views of solid parts and assemblies in AutoCAD 2000

Mastering AutoCAD 2000

Creating Standard Views of Solid Parts and Assemblies
Using SOLDRAW to correctly display hidden lines

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In this project you make the hidden lines in the drawing views you have created display correctly.

Each view you have created is associated with a -HID layer on which its hidden lines are drawn. You can use the SOLDRAW command to make the hidden lines display correctly. The Top viewport's hidden lines will be placed on the Top-HID layer and displayed in the associated color and linetype. The Section view's hidden lines are on the Section-HID layer and are displayed in the color and linetype specified on that layer.

Remember, if you haven't previously loaded the Hidden linetype prior to creating the views, the linetype won't be assigned to the -HID layers automatically, and you will have to assign them using the Layer command. You may have to adjust the LTSCALE value to make hidden lines display properly in viewports.

You will find our version of the drawing to this point in the 2609c.dwg drawing file located in the 2609.exe self-extracting executable.

1. At the command prompt, type SOLDRAW.
2. Select the edge of the Top viewport. See figure 1.

3. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more viewports.

4. Type LTSCALE.

5. Type 1 to specify the desired linetype scale so the hidden lines will be visible in the viewport. See figure 2.

6. Type SOLDRAW at the command prompt.

7. Select the edge of the front viewport.

8. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more viewports. See figure 3.

9. At the command prompt, type HPNAME. You are about to specify the name of the hatch pattern you want to hatch the section view.

10. Type ANSI31 to specify the name of the hatch pattern.

11.Type HPSCALE to indicate that you want to specify the scale of the hatch pattern.

12. Type 10 to make the pattern repeat every 10 units.

13. At the comand prompt, type SOLDRAW.

14. Select the edge of the Section viewport.

15 .Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more viewports. See figure 4.

You will find our version of the drawing to this point in the 2609d.dwg drawing file located in the 2609.exe self-extracting executable.

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