topic Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017 in AutoCAD Forum

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:39:33 GMT

Sure, DWG attached.

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

pendean — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:07:26 GMT

You appear you have two different hatch patterns

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:29:39 GMT

Can you elaborate? The properties both say they are ar-sand, and I have
used matchprop to make them the same pattern.

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:29:40 GMT

Can you elaborate? The properties both say they are ar-sand, and I have
used matchprop to make them the same pattern.

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

pendean — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:24:27 GMT

See my screenshots: not PROPERTIES, but the hatch ribbon.

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:06:52 GMT

Apologies, I didn't notice the screenshots.

Yes, I see on your screenshots that the hatches appear to be different. When I do the same and look at the hatch pattern as selected in the ribbon, they are both the same hatch pattern, 'AR-SAND'.

It's interesting that they show up as different hatch patterns for you even though I did a matchprop. If you matchprop one to the other do they still appear as different patterns?

Note I am in ACAD 2014.

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

David_W_Koch — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 22:25:44 GMT

Both at the office on Friday and at home today, when I opened your attached file, both hatches showed as AR-SAND. I did not have a problem at the office on Friday, but I believe I was plotting to PDF, not PUBLISHing. I ran into the same inconsistent plotting of those hatches myself today using AutoCAD 2016 (oldest I have installed).

I played around a bit, and even tried it on a file I created. I do not have your CF_096.ctb file, so that may have some impact. I was finally able to get consistent treatment by specifying a named Page Setup in the Publish dialog (using monochrome.ctb), rather than using Default: None AND changing the lineweight on the layer from 0.00 mm to 0.05 mm. Your mileage may vary, particularly when using your own CTB file. The image shows the settings I used for the named Page Setup in AutoCAD 2016.

Re: Hatch not showing correctly AutoCAD 2017

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:04:00 GMT

Yes, I am able to work around this by publishing to a page setup with a PDF plotter specified.
The problem does not seem to be specific to the ctb file; I have the same graphic issues when specifying a ctb of 'None'.

What I am really wondering is if this is just an AutoCAD bug, or if there is some setting that I am missing in the AutoCAD publish dialog or somewhere in the AutoCAD PDF driver properties.