solid hatch - Xref problem

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by mroizo, Jun 24, 2003.

  1. mroizo

    mroizo Guest

    hi,

    I keep on havin' this odd problem, whenever I'm Xref'ing a drawing with a
    solid hatch, Acad places the hatchings in front of all my other lines (=
    like if I would select all the hatches and choose: display order - send to
    front). I allready tried to send all the hatchings to the back, then resave
    the drawing and xref them into a new plotfile. (I also tried to regenall the
    plotfile before plotting -> same result).

    Is this a known bug for Acad2002? any help or patches?

    tia

    willy
     
    mroizo, Jun 24, 2003
    #1
  2. hi
    try this, place your hatch in a diferent dwg (xref-a) then go to your
    host dwg and xref your xref-a. then do your display order.
    hope this help

    guillermo
     
    guillermo quijano, Jun 25, 2003
    #2
  3. mroizo

    Dennis Guest

    If I understand correctly, this is actually not an odd problem. You've
    got lineworks in your drawing, then you create solid hatches over the
    lines. When you regen this drawing, naturally AutoCAD will generate
    the lines first, then the solid hatches. So in most cases you will
    have solid hatches covering lines.

    I've tried "display order" before. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it
    only works on the screen. When you try to print, the drawing is
    regenerated again, and you end up with hatches over lines again.

    What I usually do is -- after doing the hatches, I "block" everything
    else out and make a temporarily block within the drawing file.
    Immediately I insert the block back to the drawing at the same
    location, exploding the block at the same time. So now I have linework
    over hatches. Don't forget to purge the file to get rid of the
    temporary block.

    In my limited experience, it solves the "object order" problem once
    and for all.

    Hope it helps.

    Dennis Pang
     
    Dennis, Jun 25, 2003
    #3
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