Hatch Pattern And its Boundaries Become a Block?

[Brandon]

I have the strangest thing happening...and couldnt find anything close to this by searching.

 

In short, when I hatch something the hatch "attaches" itself to whatever lines or polylines are creating the boundary. In other words, once the hatch is there, it and everything it touches become a block.

This has happened in more than one drawing now, and with more than one hatch pattern.

 

Any guesses what is causing it?

[wannabe]

Associative settings?

[Brandon]

On the ones Im having trouble with...

 

it appears that "Associative" is checked under the options list,

and the draw order is set to "send behind boundary"

[darn-net]

When you LIST the hatch does it show as a Block or Hatch object?

 

There's a button "Create seperate hatches" that will combine the hatches as one.

 

Also, there is a boundary retention in which you can select "Region" or "Polyline". The Region can make it seem like a block. (In order to see this you may need to click the expand arrow on the lower left of the dialog box.)

 

Dave

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"Most of what I know came from the "F1" key"

[rkent]

PICKSTYLE is set to 2 or 3 and Associative Hatch was used. If you don't want the boundary selected when selecting the hatch set PICKSTYLE to 1 or 0.

[Brandon]

Pickstyle was set to 3! Thank you all very much.

 

 

(now how on earth did it get to 3 when no one in my office has ever even heard of that command?)

[darn-net]

It is possible a lisp program switched the variable for the function of the program.

 

A proper lisp program will save the current variable before changing it and switch it back when it completes. Not all programs plan for unexpected error in the middle and change it back.

 

Dave

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"Most of what I know came from the "F1" key"