Creating hatch boundries on multiple objects and individual lines.

I am currently finding creating non-printable boundaries for hatching very time consuming and was looking to speed this up with use of further lisp commands.

I have been using offset to create boundaries but find this is slow and completely inneficient when drawing boundaries on single lines for circuitry and as they are not closed as a object.

If anyone could suggest something i will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Can you post an image of what a typical situation (hatching of circuitry) might look like? It might be helpful to know what parameters are specified for the hatching.

As you can simple stuff but is such a chore to go through the whole drawing offsetting everything to create these boundaries a accurate distance from each part.

Maybe a custom lisp routine based upon Lee Mac's Bounding Box Reactor code? Refer to this: http://lee-mac.com/boundingboxreactor.html

the most time consuming part is trimming lines together and filleting or trimming and using PE

Seems a bit to dynamic I need something simple that will just perform a one off function as these drawings are used by multiple people.

And I will need to specify a distance from the objects

Thankyou anyway

I have to do this type of hatching from time to time. We use it to show demolition. Drawing the wiring using polylines will speed things up a bit but not much. What we normally do is not show the existing wiring and note that it is to be removed back to source as a keynote or general note. Showing existing wiring doesn't really show the contractors where it is because it is not built all nice like that. If all electrical devices and wiring within an area are being demo'd, we will hatch the area with a shaded solid hatch.

I work in a similar way but the circuitry lines is needed to show different forms of power ess/non ess & switching and also to reference sections so that the contractor will not disconnect other area's. We do use engineers notes but still need to show a very visual drawing.

I just want to state that I think it's a bit of overkill for demolition drawings to show the wiring on floor plans.

That being said, back to the subject at hand. Another approach I've seen becoming more accepted is to use a dashed linetype with a heavy lineweight to show demolition. Architects have been doing it for years and it saves a bunch of time over the hatching method. As long as your blocks are setup correctly so that they show the linetype when you change them to the demolition layer.