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    Cool Simple Question on Hatching

    I have a drawing with two hatches, side by side. When each of their properties is listed, one of the hatches lists its area, the other one doesn't. Anyone know why?
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    Default Re: Simple Question on Hatching

    Wow, I don't know, but it was fun trying to figure it out, it worked fine when I deleted it and created a new one.

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    Default Re: Simple Question on Hatching

    Try running HATCHEDIT, and recreate its boundary using a region. Check the area of the hatch after doing that. I've ran into this before, it worked for me.

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    Thanks - that worked on some of the hatches, but not all of them. It's useful to know though. I think it has something to do with the way Acad closes polylines sometimes.

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    Default Re: Simple Question on Hatching

    Quote Originally Posted by jtgb
    Thanks - that worked on some of the hatches, but not all of them. It's useful to know though. I think it has something to do with the way Acad closes polylines sometimes.
    No problem! Most of us love helping troubleshoot.
    It's very well a possibility about the polylines. I've never pin pointed the cause myself, but I'll keep an eye out for that next time it does it to me.

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    Default Re: Simple Question on Hatching

    I have found if you create the hatch by selecting points you will always get an area. If you use a polyline as a boundary and the polyline crosses itself (or two vertices at the same location) you will not get a hatch area.

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    Default Re: Simple Question on Hatching

    And of course, be wary of using hatch areas. The hatch area does not include area in "islands", such as if you place hatching around text or symbols.

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