Hatch scale

[happyunited]

How can ANS131 hatch at a scale of 700 on one drawing then look massive when the same hatch and scale is set on another dwg?
LTSCALE = 1
PSLTSCALE = 1 on both drawings

[amanda phillips]

Hi

Are the drawing units set the same in both drawings?

[NBC]

All I can think of is that one of the hatches has come from acad.pat and the other has come from acadiso.pat

they are subtlely different; in a very similar way to that of the linetype files acad.lin and acadiso.lin

[happyunited]

All I can think of is that one of the hatches has come from acad.pat and the other has come from acadiso.pat

they are subtlely different; in a very similar way to that of the linetype files acad.lin and acadiso.lin

cheers. ill just leave it.
good win yesterday united were awful, at least i got a free scarf :)

[happyunited]

Hi

Are the drawing units set the same in both drawings?

yes they are

[Alan Cullen]

This would have nothing to do with annotative scale, would it?

By the way, Blue, Tiger now has 2008, and she is going for broke on what the hell annotative means. "This is not a real word, what is it". :lol: :twisted: :P

But you know our Tiger. She is determined to find out what the hell this annotative thingy is, before she presents herself to you, to find out what the hell it is all about.

God I love all this playup. :P

[NBC]

By the way, Blue, Tiger now has 2008, and she is going for broke on what the hell annotative means. "This is not a real word, what is it". :lol: :twisted: :P

But you know our Tiger. She is determined to find out what the hell this annotative thingy is, before she presents herself to you, to find out what the hell it is all about.



I wish her all the best wishes in the world.
It took me some time before I gotten my head around it.
I have since condensed my 'How To...' on the subject into a short almost fool-proof document. It however does not delve into the realms of explaining the why's and wherefore's of how it all works.
It does however explain how to get it to work as simply as possible.

I await assisting Tiger (and anyone else) with Annotative Issues.

[LElkins]

OK Happy (or not so happy after yesterday....)
How does it display if you copy 1 hatch into the other drawing? Do they display the same? Were the hatches both created in their respective drawings, or have they been copy/pasted from others?

Cheers

P.S. Glad that you got something other than missery out of the game.:lol:

[Alan Cullen]

That is a very noble response, Blue.

But the reality is.......

Tiger is on MSN at the moment with Hedge. What are her chances? (with getting to grips with Annotative?)

I think the time is ripe for me to just wander off into the very wet sunset. :lol: :lol: :twisted:

[happyunited]

OK Happy (or not so happy after yesterday....)
How does it display if you copy 1 hatch into the other drawing? Do they display the same? Were the hatches both created in their respective drawings, or have they been copy/pasted from others?

Cheers

P.S. Glad that you got something other than missery out of the game.:lol:

no the game was bad but the memories are forever :)

yes if i copy one into the other its the same but if i match properties it goes way off

[LElkins]

Upload both files if you can, delete everything excluing the hatch and hatch boundary, then I can have a look. I remember having this problem before, but can't remember why...

Cheers

[happyunited]

here we go

[LElkins]

Is measurement set the same in both drawings?

[NBC]

I was able to match properties and get the results you required in the circle, without any problems.

I then took a peak at my hatch pattern files (acad.pat and acadiso.pat) in Notepad.
For that particular hatch pattern (ANSI31) here are what each of them list:

from acad.pat
*ANSI31, ANSI Iron, Brick, Stone masonry
45, 0,0, 0,.125


from acadiso.pat
*ANSI31,ANSI Iron, Brick, Stone masonry
45, 0, 0, 0, 3.175

As you can see from the two above lists, the description in acadiso is 25.4 times bigger than the description in acad.pat
This equates to one inch.

This, I believe is the problem

[NBC]

To determine which .pat file you are currently using, enter the following at the command line:

(getenv "ANSIHatch")

[mahahaavaaha]

Hi,

I also suspect that this is a case of ANSI and ISO patternfiles. On opening the hatchareas are visually almost identical in density but the other has a scale of 30 and the other of 500. If you do a hatchedit to both hatchobjects, and change the scale to 500 in each, they will result in having the same patterndefinition and look alike with same scale...

/Petri

[happyunited]

thank everyone for their help.

[LElkins]

Happy,

Any definitive route of the problem?

Cheers

[happyunited]

Hi,

I also suspect that this is a case of ANSI and ISO patternfiles. On opening the hatchareas are visually almost identical in density but the other has a scale of 30 and the other of 500. If you do a hatchedit to both hatchobjects, and change the scale to 500 in each, they will result in having the same patterndefinition and look alike with same scale...

/Petri

I done what this lad said and it worked. HATCHEDIT then match properties.