Hatching 3D PL's

[happyunited]

Hello

 

I am trying to hatch in a drawing I created using 3D polylines. The hatching looks OK in plan but when I switch to isometric views the hatching is down at elevation 0.00 and not at the elevation of the colded 3d pl I selected.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks in Advance.

[hoss]

You need to rotate and origin your UCS so the surface your are planing to hatch in on XY

then hatch it

[happyunited]

You need to rotate and origin your UCS so the surface your are planing to hatch in on XY

then hatch it

 

hoss,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

The closed 3D PL has 4 different elevations and your suggestion doesn't seem to work.

 

Any other suggestions?

 

This is my original attempt

[Cad64]

Hatching is done in the current X,Y plane, whatever that plane may be. You cannot hatch an area that has polylines at different elevations.

[hoss]

you can use 3p in UCS to align your UCS with the face, then draw a temporary rectangle and hatch that

upload the dwg, or this section of your drawing and I will be able to help more

[ReMark]

4 planes...4 different UCS's...4 separate hatches.

[numberOCD]

For an elevated Pline or Polygon like that I use UCS/OBject (Command: UCS, Enter, OB, Enter) for quick response. It only gets tricky in that manner if you are trying to line up angles in multiple hatches. Be warned: when you edit the hatch, it realigns x,y direction in the hatch pattern to your current UCS x,y axes. It is nearly irrelevant in hatches such as AR-CONC but quite an annoyance in others such as ANSI31.