Trimming Hatch

[AMB4311]

I know this may be stupid but if I make a large hatched area and I want to fix it up so say I draw a big circle and hatch it. Then I want to cut part of that hatched cirlce off, can I do this without redoing the original hatch? I tried bisecting with a line then trimming but that doens't work. Is there any other way?

[azzro10]

u should be able to just draw a line n trim it works every time for me

 

just gave it a quick go to make sure, n worked like a charm

[Guest Alan Cullen]

If the hatch is associative to start with, you could maniplulate the original hatch boundary somehow, and the hatch will follow that manipulated boundary.

 

P.S. Azzro's method also works.

[AMB4311]

u should be able to just draw a line n trim it works every time for me

 

just gave it a quick go to make sure, n worked like a charm

 

I don't think I'm that big of a nooby but I can't figure it out I draw the line and go to do the trip, and there is nothing overlapping or anything. I am using 2008LT.

[azzro10]

if the hatch isnt in a boundary, ie u draw a circle hatch it them erase the circle them it wont trim.

maybe this is the problem

[Guest Alan Cullen]

And you should never erase the hatch boundary, bad practice. If you don't want the hatch boundary to show in plots, then stick it on a "no plot" layer, e.g. layer "hatch boundaries".

[makovich]

I had a drawing in which hatches would not trim.

I "wblocked" the entities I was working on to a new drawing.

Now trim works perfect with the hatches!

 

It seems that sometimes a drawing can become corrupt and audit can't fix it.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Max Vilchez.