Compass Rose

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SW2014

Hello, I had asked a similar question not long ago, it was about creating an isometric compass rose. @Benoit had suggested that I create a 3D compass rose to insert it into my MEPs afterwards. The problem is that it doesn't suit me or my boss in the end, we would like to create a very simple rose, composed of wireframe arrows, so I drew one in sketch on one of my MEPs and I would like to transform it into a sketch block.

My problem is that I can convert it into a block but the hatching I added to it shifts each time I create the block, I can't make them stay in place...

If anyone has a solution?

CF image: on the left the simplified compass rose that I drawn, on the right the hatching that shifts each time I create my block

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Joss

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It's better with the image;)


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Hello

In Inventor, I had created a user "symbol" for this type of use (e.g. locating a pin hole)

This allowed me to easily and quickly insert my "symbol" while keeping the hatching and so that it was not too heavy for my drawings.

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Hi, have you tried exporting it to DXF or DWG to import it back into SolidWorks?

It may be a bit of a mess, but it could work!

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@Aurélien, that's exactly what I'd like to do for my compass rose the problem is that to quickly find this Symbol, I have to transform it into a block and when I try to turn it into a block, my hatching shifts every time :-(

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@PL, ha no, it could work, I hadn't thought about it

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What an idea to put a compass rose in iso

A compass rose is flat and in 2D for me

an idea may not be good but I give it anyway

if you make a flat sketch of your rose and hatch your half arrows

you take a different angle to have it in iso

screenshot image that you transform in 2 D via the tutorial

here http ://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/tuto-creation-d-un-model-l-aide-d-une-image

@+ ;-))

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@gt22, yes, I agree that a compass rose is normally not in ISO, especially in mecha...

But here, for a DOE, I have networks drawn in iso and the customer wants a compass rose in iso so that it is more meaningful for maintenance and troubleshooters who will go to their homes in the future...

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Do you create your ISO via your 3D assembly?

If that's the case why not put your rose on your assembly

@+ ;-))

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@gt22, I didn't quite understand your proposal to put my compass rose on my assembly.  If I only put it on my assembly, we'll just see a building with a compass rose. Since I isolated each as-built network on MEPs (I need them for SAT protocols) and I oriented each network so that we can see all the elements that make them up, I need to put a compass rose on each one.

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Well I'll arrive after the battle, but once you've registered your block. (your hatching is shifting)

If you edit it, rebuild it (ctrl-q), normally the hatching repositions correctly.

and then you re-register it, and then it inserts correctly the next time.

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