Hatching open polylines

[avaninecommuter]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to hatch a long curved path that is composed of polylines and splines that I manually joined together by pedit. When I try to hatch it, I get an error message that says the area is not closed and thus cannot be hatched, but I have no clue where the problem area is. Is there a way to figure out what parts aren't lining up/closed correctly? When I select the object, it shows that all the lines are connected, so I don't really know how to fix this.

 

Thanks,

AC

[Dadgad]

Select the polyline, and go into the PROPERTIES for it and change the POLYLINE description to CLOSED.

[avaninecommuter]

Okay so now the line is closed but when I hatch it, it hatches everything around the path as well! This probably means there's something wrong with my line?

[MSasu]

In Properties check what you have under Closed field for that polyline. Alternatively when call PEDIT command on it check what option is available Open or Close; if is Close then the poyline is not closed. That it, even if end vertexes are in contact, the oplyline may not be closed in fact.

It may help if you will post the drawing with the trouble-maker contour here.

[Dadgad]

That will probably take care of it.

If it does not you could try increasing the HALOGAP variable setting on your system.

Enter HALOGAP at the commandline, when prompted for a new value increase the current setting by 25% and try again.

[avaninecommuter]

Thanks for the quick responses guys!

 

I've attached the file here: The path I'm trying to hatch is the blue path object. There are three others already hatched.

 

 

WorkingFile11.dwg

[MSasu]

Try to freeze all other layers, explode the trouble-maker contour and recreate it; it should work.

 

Edit: I was able to hatch using the user hatch pattern, but not with your pattern. But after aligned the drawing with WCS it worked well with the NET pattern also.

[avaninecommuter]

Tried that, now I get this error:

Hatch spacing too dense, or dash size too small. Hatch Pattern Too Dense

 

I was thinking maybe I can use the hatch pattern I set for the other three for this one but I don't know how to turn that into a preset.

[MSasu]

Please check the comments that I added meantime to my previous post.

[avaninecommuter]

Thanks for the help MSasu, I am leaving work now but I will give that a shot when I get back to the office tomorrow.

 

Edit: actually I just tried it real quick and it worked! Thanks for the help!

[MSasu]

Glad to hear that your issue is now gone!