Hatch Strangess... No idea what's going on here.

Hey all - maybe someone could figure out what's happening...

I'm trying to hatch some areas in this dwg; each hatch will be bounded by non-closed polylines, so I've picked to add points. the hatch looks fine, but if I click it to later delete or otherwise modify it, any adjacent objects that served as part of the boundary are selected as well. If I then delete the hatch, the adjacent things go with it.

Closed polylines are deleted as well if I hatch one, then pick only the hatch and hit Del.

?????

-HATCHEDIT > Remove boundary?

OK, tried that, but if I then pick the hatch (single click, not a window), then hit Del, the original boundary still goes away with it.

Another weird thing I just noticed is that I can no longer double click the hatch to bring up the dialog, I have to do it command line or by menu.

I can recreate the boundary, but that's just a pain in the rump. And if the original boundary was done by picking an area, like I first tried, and the hatch boundary incorporates any objects used into itself, even if I recreate the boundary after hatching, part of that boundary is still deleted with the hatch (wha??) Right now, it seems like closed Plines that are adjacent to the area (not hatching within the close Pline, just using one side as a boundary to Hatch>Pick Area) are deleted this way, but any open Plines used a a boundary (then recreated) are not deleted. Seriously, wha????

do you get this issue if its non-associative?

Also, does that block wall have a z coordinate or any sort of solids properties?

Is the Hatch Associative?

DBLCLKEDIT...set this to 1. Does it make a difference?

DBLCLKEDIT set to 1 produces no change (and I assume 1 is On, which it was already)

Hatch is associative - that's what I almost always use, but have never seen this behavior before. Of course I had to copy the d*mn thinng into my dwg from one on the server - I probably just polluted my whole system until the end of time, ugh! Or at least that what I thought - is this typical of Associative and maybe I'm just being not-so-smart today?

Also - flat XY, no Z. No solids are involved.

So - I made the hatch nonassoc, and the trouble seems gone - double clicking to edit works again and the boundary deleting issue is gone.

Thanks all - sorry if this ends up that it's acting this way b/c of the definition of what associative is. I just can't ever remember the boundary being deleted with the hatch.

it shouldnt be doing that, that's for sure, you might try doing a recover on it and then see if you can get an associated hatch to work there properly.

you might try copying your boundry off to the side so you can zoom in on just the boundry with no other entities in your autocad screen and then hatching it and moving it into position along with your newly created boundry. That way your not using the wall and curb entities as your associated boundry.

I'm drawing this thing 3D which my boss doesn't mess with, so I now have my part done but was trying to help his workload out by drawing some section views for him. OF COURSE I had to run into trouble doing extra stuff, ha!

For now, I will audit, purge, recover, curse, reboot, then go ahead and just doe what Daniel said... maybe Monday will bring good news.

A temporary solution is better than no solution at this point. You're back to being productive so now it is time to catch up on your work and finish it off. Good luck.

Thanks!

Thanks!

AutoCAD 2011 has had this problem since I have been using it. I just use Properties to make nonassociative if I need to delete. You have to Click, Right-Click Hatch Edit or use the button or commandline. It is a pain.

I take it 2012 doesn't have this problem.