Sparky I mean if you have a closed space made up from more than one DC element- eg draw a circle (outline only, no fill or hatch) then draw a line through it to split it into 2 slices- how do I hatch only one of the slices. The slice isn't a DC element, although it's a closed space.
Boss, I agree Paint's old and ugly and not a CAD system, but as I said "even Paint" can do the paint can fill thing. I'm surprised if no CAD systems do that, but then I have no experience of such things.
Here's a real example- look at the sample DC drawing ENGINE, where the cross section of the block, head and the conrod are hatched. Each hatch line is an indivudual line, which must have taken hours to do. If DC could have "seen" the conrod- whose outline is lines and circle segments- as a closed shape, the hatching would have been simple.
I had kind of expected (ok, hoped?) that if one grouped a bunch of DC elements, which together constituted a closed space, that DC would have been able to fill or hatch it.
Boss, I agree Paint's old and ugly and not a CAD system, but as I said "even Paint" can do the paint can fill thing. I'm surprised if no CAD systems do that, but then I have no experience of such things.
Here's a real example- look at the sample DC drawing ENGINE, where the cross section of the block, head and the conrod are hatched. Each hatch line is an indivudual line, which must have taken hours to do. If DC could have "seen" the conrod- whose outline is lines and circle segments- as a closed shape, the hatching would have been simple.
I had kind of expected (ok, hoped?) that if one grouped a bunch of DC elements, which together constituted a closed space, that DC would have been able to fill or hatch it.