Concrete Hatching

[OLD SCHOOL]

Sometimes when hatching with concrete pattern, the small triagular shapes come out as lines. If you alter the ucs angle and re-hatch it works fine - not sure why.

Any Ideas??

[Dana W]

When the plane that is hatched is rotated in 3d, the triangles are foreshortened.

[Glen1980]

I get this problem in LT as well. Could it be because I can't pick the z axis when I set new UCS's?

[eldon]

This a known feature of the concrete hatching, when you are a long way from the 0,0 coordinate. Making a UCS moves the origin closer to the hatch for the older versions of AutoCAD, but there should now be an option for doing this in the Hatching dialogue box.

[Glen1980]

Funnily enough I had mine about 10m from the named UCS but 500KM from the world and the hatch worked when I had the UCS set to world!

[Organic]

I too have this problem quite often and change 'Specified Origin' -> 'Default to boundary extents' in the Hatch properties to get it to display correctly.

[BIGAL]

Gravel will do the same as well go silly when viewed we just re set the origin point in the hatch properties to be a corner of the object being hatched.

[Jack_O'neill]

Does changing the scale of the hatch have anything to do with it? I never get all that far out I guess, have never seen it do that.

[alanjt]

I too have this problem quite often and change 'Specified Origin' -> 'Default to boundary extents' in the Hatch properties to get it to display correctly.

Same here. Fixes the problem every time.

[BIGAL]

If your doing civil drawings and using real world co-ordinates as an example 285588.123,5763207.123 then the problem creeps in pretty quick we just all know about it.

[petesperry]

Awesome, thanks guys, i have been having this problem for ages, but could never find the right description to bring up these posts!! I knew someone out there would have had the same problem and then the answer too!! WOo hoo, thanks! 1 happy technician, sad really, this really has brightened up my day!

 

Pete