MastroLube Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Hello everyone, I'm trying to "matchprop" some hatches but something gets wrong.. The final result isn't as it should be... I've recorded a gif to explain this strange behavior. https://media.giphy.com/media/l3q2XXfu77U4H06pG/source.gif This is not the first time that happens, how could I fix that? Thanks, Dennis example.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Open the Hatch Dialog, by starting the HATCH command, if you wish to use an existing hatch as a reference, select it as shown in the screenshot, then choose one of the Boundaries option, and start clicking away. Don't select the hatch before starting the MATCHPROP function. Click on the icon, then define your hatch selection by clicking within a hatched area. Be sure that when you click into the hatch you wish to replicate, that a portion of the linework which makes up the hatch is visible within your PICKBOX, meaning don't click in a void in the hatch pattern. As shown in your gif, you are attempting to match the hatch properties of a valid hatch into an UNHATCHED area, which by definition has no HATCH PROPERTIES to alter, there's the rub. If another area already is hatched you can do it that way. If it is empty, you cannot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastroLube Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 Hi! thank for your reply! I wasn't try to matchprop an area without hatch.. it was only the result of a previous attempt to matchprop.. the scale gets alterate after the matchprop. as you can see they all have the same proprieties but they look different. I have to change the scale from 0.8 to 0.03 in order to make them look the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Now I understand what you are describing. I hadn't realized that what you were clicking on was a line in the hatch pattern. How did you apply the hatch in the first place, that they represent differently? That would seem to be the key to, the behavior being demonstrated, which I have never seen before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MastroLube Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 Unfortunately it's not my dwg, I get this drawing from a customer. In the two diagonal walls there was another hatch, I just wanted to uniform them.. but it doesn't work I've uploaded the dwg if you want to look to.. I fixed it by changing it to Ansi37 but that's very strange ... :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 From what I could find it's caused by having the same name of hatch, but one being imperial and the other metric somehow getting into in the same drawing, which if you look at the two hatches in your drawing shows a distance between the hatch lines in one as 0.1 and the other as 2.54 So that sounds plausible. You can get them to match up again by selecting all hatches of that type and in the properties giving them the same scale, but that may need a bit of trial and error to find the correct scale for your drawing, 0.031496 looks perfect. And if you regognise the numbers that is 0.03937*0.8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 (edited) From what I could find it's caused by having the same name of hatch, but one being imperial and the other metric somehow getting into in the same drawing, which if you look at the two hatches in your drawing shows a distance between the hatch lines in one as 0.1 and the other as 2.54 So that sounds plausible. You can get them to match up again by selecting all hatches of that type and in the properties giving them the same scale, but that may need a bit of trial and error to find the correct scale for your drawing, 0.031496 looks perfect. And if you regognise the numbers that is 0.03937*0.8. Good work steven-g, I was thinking/wondering about that while I was out for dinner, you nailed it! If you select those two hatches which are different, and change the scale in their properties from0.8 to 0.03149, it all looks good to me! If one runs the -dwgunits command on the drawing, the units are mms, and those hatches were obviously created with drawing units set to inches. Edited February 14, 2017 by Dadgad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 It is actually a problem I recognise seeing myself a few times, I just never really spent much time on it, this reminded me, so did a bit of digging about in that drawing and on the web, and it makes sense. Now next time I come across I'll know the answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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