Hatch's gone bad

[folkker]

When I use a hatch pattern at coordinates 0,0,0 everything looks great. If I use a hatch anywhere else the hatch looses its patterns and looks like a bunch of broken lines. I can drag and drop, copy or move the hatch to the other location with no ill effect. If I try to edit or create a new one then it’s deformed once again. Please help.

 

[Exxit]

[ul]
[li]hatch at 0,0,0 and move...normally it works[/li]
[li]use the SV SNAPBASE[/li]
[/ul]

regards, Lothar

ADT 2004
ACAD 2002

 

[jjeng2]

Ive had problems with hatches and never could figure out if it was an actual ACAD problem or just a display problem.

 

[lpseifert]

Temporarily move the drawing origin closer to the area you want to hatch using the UCS command. Then hatch.

 

[daddymem]

Nice little lisp that takes care of that problem

(defun c:hpf (/ om sb pt)
(setq om (getvar"osmode"))
(setvar "osmode" 15359)
(setq sb (getvar "snapbase"))
(setq pt (getpoint"\nSnap to Any Point on Broken Hatch Pattern: "))
(command "snapbase" pt)
(command"hatchedit" pt "" "" "" "")
(setvar "osmode" om)
(command "snapbase" sb)
(princ)
)

Wish I remembered where this lisp came from...probably here