Hatch Boundary Update Fails

[one25IT]

I want to remove all data labels from a drawing and I want hatches to fill the gaps.

 

All hatches are created as associative fills.

 

When I remove data labels using a Quick Select or Select Similar command only a few neighboring hatch areas are updated. As for the remaining gaps from labels persist.

 

Now I am removing them one by one.

 

Initial state:

After removing labels:

 

Any ideas?

[SLW210]

Can you post the file?

[CyberAngel]

Try Hatch Edit and Remove Boundaries. The text borders will show up as dashed boxes, which you can remove.

[one25IT]

SLW210, this is the drawing.

 

Drawing3.dwg

 

CyberAngel, could you be more precise? I know that I can remove the holes, which are left after deleting the text, but is there a way to close them all at once?

 

Thanks.

[CyberAngel]

If you have to do it in a hurry, I suppose you could right-click on the hatch and use Set Boundary. That way you only have to select the old exterior boundary, and you can ignore all the interior boundaries.

[one25IT]

There are a lot of hatches and a lot boundaries to take care of. Therefore, it still would be quite time consuming. I ended up leaving the annotations in the drawing.

 

Thanks anyhow.

[CyberAngel]

Would it be so hard to tweak the code for hatches, so that boundaries around items on frozen layers don't apply in a viewport?

[one25IT]

It sounds promising, but I fear I can't do it. Maybe in a few months I'll be up to it!

[CyberAngel]

Sorry, that wasn't meant for you. Complaining about AutoCAD is one of my hobbies. Not very rewarding, but it passes the time.