How to fill to the edges of a zig zag line?

[Mr.Alex]

Hi,

 

Please can someone tell me if it's possibe to do a solid hatch to an object which was drawn with a "zig zag" line type and get it to fill to the edges of the wavey line, rather than just to the centre line?

 

Thanks,

 

Alex

[Zorg]

Select all the object of where you want the hatch to set a boundry then hatch it

[Mr.Alex]

Thanks Zorg,

 

This is the problem I'm getting:

 

 

Is there a way to get it to hatch 'to the teeth' of the line, not the centre line?

 

Alex

[eldon]

If you really really want to hatch into the teeth, here is a way, but not very simple. First explode the line with the Lisp LNEXP, then join up all the individual zigs, and then you can hatch into the teeth. I would not like to do this more than once

lnexp.lsp

[Mr.Alex]

Thank you for the reply Eldon, that's very helpful.

 

I hadn't realised it was not straight forward.

 

I'll give it a go!

[dbroada]

having exploded the line, can you convert one secment to polyline (PEDIT) and use the join option?

[eldon]

having exploded the line, can you convert one secment to polyline (PEDIT) and use the join option?

 

The line segments of the zig-zag line are not continuous when the line is curved. So when exploded there are lots of zig segments and lots of zag segments with gaps between. I tried the multiple option of Pedit with the fuzz set to 0.1, and it did not do a complete join and I reverted to dragging ends around and then joining. That is why I said I would not want to do it many times

[Zorg]

tried using a polyjoin lisp? here's one LeeMac made for me..

 

(defun c:pj(/ l1 l2 fz)
 (setvar "PEDITACCEPT" 1)
  (if
   (and
     (setq l1(entsel "\nSelect first line > "))
     (setq l2(entsel "\nSelect second line > "))
     (setq fz(distance(cadr l1)(cadr l2)))
     (vl-cmdf "_.pedit" "_m" (car l1)(car l2) "" "_j" "_j" "_a" fz "")
   ); end and
   (c:jln)
   ); end if
 (princ)
 ); end c:jln

 

Z

[dbroada]

The line segments of the zig-zag line are not continuous when the line is curved. So when exploded there are lots of zig segments and lots of zag segments with gaps between. I tried the multiple option of Pedit with the fuzz set to 0.1, and it did not do a complete join and I reverted to dragging ends around and then joining. That is why I said I would not want to do it many times

I'm glad I don't use zig zag lines then

[mjavy7]

^^ me too. That is a lot of work for the end result.

[vijayaragavant]

thank you it works fine:)

[Mr.Alex]

What I decided to go for in the end was the revision cloud tool, which gave the kind of effect I wanted, and it filled to the 'arcs'.