Recently my Hatch dialog box disappeared.

[b.boyes]

Recently my hatch dialog box has disappeared. Every time I envoke the hatch command, I have to follow the command prompt rather than the dialog box. Any idea if this is a simple variable setting, and if so, what is it.

[stelthorst]

Try the FILEDIA system variable

1 = dialog boxes
0 = no dialog boxes

[rkmcswain]

Try the FILEDIA system variable

1 = dialog boxes
0 = no dialog boxes

FILEDIA has no effect on command dialog boxes. FILEDIA controls display of FILE DIAlogs

To the OP - are you using the ._HATCH command (not using a - prefix)?
What about ._BHATCH?
What about ._GRADIENT
What do those commands do?

(Be sure to use the ._ prefix)

[Mike.Perry]

Recently my hatch dialog box has disappeared. Every time I envoke the hatch command, I have to follow the command prompt rather than the dialog box. Any idea if this is a simple variable setting, and if so, what is it.Hi

You might want to take a look at this thread ( Missing: dialog boxes ).

Have a good one, Mike

[Steve Johnson]

It's a bug I have described in various Bug Watch articles (http://gis.cadalyst.com/gis/search/applianceSearchResults.jsp?order=r&query=gis+%22a+lack+of+dialog%22&notq=&submit.x=62&submit.y=10). It has been there since 2006, and is frequently (but not always) associated with use of Xerox plot devices. Do you have one of those?

[b.boyes]

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately I still have the problem, must be a bug that Steve describes. However, we do no have any xerox printers in the office. The problem I have in addition is that it wont go away even if i re-start the computer.

[Steve Johnson]

Is Hatch the only thing broken? How about the ClassicXref command?

[rkmcswain]

Is Hatch the only thing broken? How about the ClassicXref command?

Steve. This bug somehow slipped my mind until your post...

We had the same problem here with HATCH, XREF, and a few other commands. Working with Autodesk, we found the common factor was "plotting to file". I never could get it to repeat on demand, but sure enough after a few plots (while plotting to file instead of to a port), those commands would stop working. An AutoCAD restart would fix it of course.

[b.boyes]

To reply to Steve, yep, it's only the hatch dialog. All others are working fine. The other thing is this, when I double click on a hatch element, the dialog box appears for editing the hatch properties, but not for new hatch. If all else fails, I'm just gonna re-install CAD, hopefully that'll fix em!

Thanks everyone for your efforts.

[Steve Johnson]

Yes, it looks like yours is quite different from the "Lack of Dialog" bug, and a repair or reinstall would be the first thing to try.