hatching an X-ref

[tecton3d]

is there a way to hatch an X-ref without having to first draw a Pline around the boundary desired to receive hatch?

 

thanks.

[Peter M. Gruhn]

ACAD 2006, I just click points in where I want them and it works. Bet you a dollar there's a DONTHATCHXREFS environment variable. Now, what is it really called?

 

No joy from the help. (again)

 

The web points out that you can't hatch an xclipped xref.

 

I GUESS you may also run in to trouble with older versions of ACAD or with Lite. I PRESUME you already know about flatness.

 

That's all I can dig up at this point.

 

(DONTHATCHXREFS: I may owe you a dollar.)

[tecton3d]

thanks for the reply. i'm running autocad '06 and do know about flatness

 

... so far, i can't find any workaround for this:confused:

[Peter M. Gruhn]

Falling back on the "ACAD gets weird sometimes" theory.

 

If you make a drawing with a square. Save it. Open a new drawing. XREF the square in to the new drawing. Can you hatch it?

 

If so...

 

If you XREF the real xref into the new drawing, can you hatch it?

[tecton3d]

Falling back on the "ACAD gets weird sometimes" theory.

 

If you make a drawing with a square. Save it. Open a new drawing. XREF the square in to the new drawing. Can you hatch it?

 

If so...

 

If you XREF the real xref into the new drawing, can you hatch it?

 

after making the original square the xref in a new file, it hatches just fine. It must have something to do with the fact that the file i'm trying to xref is the base plan of a project that about 4 people access at different times (though not at the same)... which, shouldn't change anything officially... but it is Autodesk;)

 

... sounds like the "ACAD gets wierd" crutch applies again