GAPS and boundarys

im trying to hatch a area inside a box but every time i try it says that there are gaps but they are within tolerance and give me OK or NO

if i select OK it hatches one i want and one beside it and the boundary it creates is all messed up

if i select NO nothing happens

ive tried to find out how to identify the gaps and ill ive found is to look for the red circles.. mine dont seem to display is there anyway to turn them on? or another way to show the gaps i have so i can close them

i always draw with snap on

I have, on occasion, had similar grief with hatches..."my solution" is:

1. use the BPOLY command and select inside the desired hatch area-This will generate a boundary.

2. select the newly created boundary for the hatch boundary (using pick and object as opposed to picking a point within).

You may also join all of the lines you are trying to use as a boundary, thereby converting them all to polylines.

Hope this helps!

Sometimes it is best to draw the boundary area you want to hatch into another layer and make sure it polylines so Autocad doesn't get confused.

Annoying I know!

Well known buggy problem been around for years no matter how hard you join pts together, move a end point of a line using grips then put it back hatch works then .

Why is it so ?

Post the drawing so we can take a look at it.

i was able to fix it but it required alot of manual editing of the hatch pattern and adding and removing vertex's

what i think it was doing is hatching it then creating it as a island and hatching around it