FILL/Hatching problem

I have Autocad 2008 and someone brought a drawing to plot. When i opened the drawing, I can see the hatch area in the drawing, but not in the preview and in the final print out. But it works fine on another computer - everything is fine. After doing a lot of searching i found the solution in Autodesk site - to enable the fill option. The drawing when opened in my computer has FILL option - 0 and when opened on my friends computer FILL option - 1. Though i can turn on the fill option after opening the drawing , i wish to fix this so that it will be same like that of my friend - by default the fill option is on and hatch is visible when opened, no need to turn anything on.

(BTW i tried to reinstall autocad 2 time , turned out to be useless.)

Somebody know how to fix this issue. plz help.

The Fill system variable is usually set to "on" by default. Something, a lisp routine(?), may be resetting it without your knowledge. Do you run any custom lisp routines? I suppose that to circumvent this problem you could construct a toolbar button that would toggle Fill "on".

Tnx for the quick reply.

This particular drawing was, may be designed with the fill option off in ACAD2k7.

So when i open this thing in 2K8, on my computer the hatch is not visible. So I will turn on the FILL option and it is visible. If I create a new drawing, the FIll option is enabled default. But the previous drawing I have to enable it. But this thing on another computer( Autocad 2k8 - i checked FILL is on for this drawing on this computer) is showing the hatch without doing anything.

I would like to know what routine is running on the other computer which is automatically running which turns this flag on?

* this looks a simple issue but is a serious problem

If the drawing is not displaying correctly on your system why would you be looking at something on the other computer to be the cause of the problem?