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Solid Hatch Display Order

Solid Hatch Display Order

Solid Hatch Display Order

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In using a solid hatch for shading/coloring within a drawing and using the "Display Order" command to push it back behind lines running through, or around, the hatched area works great until... (surrounding lines are also brought forward).

XRefing a drawing with a solid hatch (previously described as in background through display order command) is brought to front or on top of other drawing entities. Only way found to 'get around' problem is to wblock out the hatch patterns and seperately reference that file, again performing a display order function, this time using references, not layers.

Any help would be great.

RE: Solid Hatch Display Order

Dear Skulstad,

If the area to be hatched has no arc boundary you can use
2D solids (the SOLID command).

:)
Farzad

RE: Solid Hatch Display Order

AutoCAD has display order problems with blocks and hathces. What works better than the 'display order' command is to recreate the linework you want to be on top. Copy items you want to bring to top, then erase the original items. Command sequence is something like:
Copy > (select items) "0,0" "0,0"
Erase > previous

After doing this it seems to work not only in the current drawing but also when used as an x-reference.

HTH,
Carl

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