is this all you got? (hatching)

Does anyone have any good basic suggestions on how to make hatching workable and easy. I'm attempting to hatch the absolute simplest of images, a 600 s.f. residential addition and I've spent 3 of my weekend hours attempting to satisfy the needs of Autocad so, it won't crash continually, while displaying the message "analyzing internal islands". As far as I can tell there is no analyzing going on, it's simply waiting 10 min.'s before it freezes the screen. I really don't want to enclose all of my items in polylines again and it doesn't help, anyway.

I'm happy to provide my hardware spec.'s or attach the image. If this were a baroque cathedral or animation for a motion picutre, I could understand but, come on, this is an addition. The words "just do it" come to mind. The hatch command works as well as it did in 1992, at least, there was an excuse in 1992.

Can you post an image of the area you are trying to hatch so we can guess what the problem could be?

Try zooming in so you can just see the area you want to hatch and try again...this has helped me in the past.

Check the hatch scale. If it is real small relative to the drawing it will make the computer lag ad AutoCad will often crash.

Can you post an image of the area you are trying to hatch so we can guess what the problem could be?

Here's the file. To keep the attachment size limit, I've removed the bldg. sections, which were, also, in the drawing at the time. There was a transverse and longitudinal section in the drawing (quite uncomplicated).

I'm using Acad full 2006 and was trying to hatch the "A" area. I had enclosed the window and surrounding wall in polylines. Eventually I gave up and moved the surrounding polylines to a new file and hatched there and copied back to this drawing.

td88

File to Cad tutor 4 20 09.dwg

Here's the file. To keep the attachment size limit, I've removed the bldg. sections, which were, also, in the drawing at the time. There was a transverse and longitudinal section in the drawing (quite uncomplicated).

 

I'm using Acad full 2006 and was trying to hatch the "A" area. I had enclosed the window and surrounding wall in polylines. Eventually I gave up and moved the surrounding polylines to a new file and hatched there and copied back to this drawing.

 

td88

I didn't have any trouble hatching it. I selected the objects on you're A frame polyline and the window polyline, went hatch, normal island display and it worked fine.

If you purge you're drawing (PURGE) you can get rid of defunct layers, styles and blocks etc which reduces the file size.

File to Cad tutor 4 20 09_MODIFIED.dwg