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The Hatch problem!!!

The Hatch problem!!!

The Hatch problem!!!

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Ok does every one know about the problem with some hatches when they get further away from 0,0 they fall apart.  one good example is the hatch AR-CONC which is made up of dots and triangles and as it gets further from 0 the triangles seem to fall apart

Autodesks solution is this

1) copy the area that you wish to hatch and move the copy to 0,0.
2) then hatch as usuall and explode the hatch
3) block the hatch then move the hatch only back to the desired location

well this is an all well and good work around but it doesnt fix the problem in some situations like when you have an island in the hatch that may need to be moved later or have text that will need to move around in the hatch at some point right well here is a some what undocumented command/variable i found called snapbase
ok so say you have a rectangular area that you need to hatch say a 2X15 or what ever and it way off in space (say in +millions) well before you run hatch run snapbase pic the bottom left most corner of your soon to be hatched area as the snapbase location then hatch as you would normally and from the 26 times i have done this in different senarios i havent had a problem yet with hatches

Also another key with snapbase and hatches this also allows you to preset spacing between hatch lines better say for example:

you have a 7'X 8'rectangle and you need horizontal lines spaced evenly 4" in this rectangle.  Well you could offset or array a line or you can gointo and set your snapbase and use the hatch Line set hatch to user defined and set a spacing of 4" then hatchas usuall

just thought i would share the wealth of knowlege with everyone

if everyone helps everybody the world will be a better place

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