topic Re: Hatch dialog box in AutoCAD Forum

Hatch dialog box

mikePQH4T — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:15:11 GMT

Dear Autocad,

you make me miserable

using cad used to be predictable,

you change things for no reason

i spend part of my day searching for ways to get things back, waste my mothertrucking time

all my issues are because you change things

I HATE YOU!!!!!

Re: Hatch dialog box

Patchy — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:45:09 GMT

Nobody here is Autocad, nobody.

Re: Hatch dialog box

mikePQH4T — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:47:29 GMT

obviously

Re: Hatch dialog box

Patchy — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:55:50 GMT

Autocad is a program, Autodesk is the Company that owns it.

Obviously the users are not Autocad.

Re: Hatch dialog box

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:14:24 GMT

@mikePQH4T wrote:

..., you change things for no reason ....

The fact that you don't like the change or understand or want to know the reason doesn't mean there isn't one -- there's always a reason. It's always considered to be an improvement in some way, whether or not everyone always agrees. Just in the case of Hatching, regardless of the dialog box question, do you ever Hatch by just picking inside an area? That has not always been possible. If they never changed anything, you wouldn't be able to do that, but would be required to select all the boundary objects, no matter how many or how convoluted. Should they not have made that change?

BUT more importantly, very often there's a way to use the former way of doing things if you prefer, sometimes with a command name including "CLASSIC," and/or with System Variable settings. In this case, if you change the HPDLGMODE System Variable [go into Help and read about it] to 1, do you get the good-ol' Hatch dialog box you want? Also read about other System Variables with names starting with HP -- you might be surprised at how many things you can set to your liking.

Re: Hatch dialog box

Valentin_CAD — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:48:06 GMT

@mikePQH4T ,

We understand your frustration, but users in this forum do not work for Autodesk (unless you see their logo in front of their name) and only help provide solutions, and best practices.

Consider providing your feedback to Autodesk directly.

How to provide feedback on Autodesk products

Re: Hatch dialog box

fkellogg — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:17:31 GMT

Not really sure what your issue with the hatch dialog box is, but I'll just say that I almost NEVER use it.

All of my hatches are on a Tool Palette.

Simply Ctrl-C a selected bit of hatch, and Right-click>Paste to a blank spot on a (new) palette. All current properties of the selected hatch are inherited to the new tool. You can then copy/paste the same tool in another spot, and adjust the new one's Properties, such as Pattern, Scale, Layer, Rotation, etc. Thumbnail Images adjust, and you can rename to differentiate similar. (My HorizPly & VertPly are the same in all except rotation.)

To use, click the hatch tool and then click in the area you want to hatch - presto!

(Single - one hatch area at a time - as far as I know).

Tool Palettes are GREAT - I have two others, mostly for Blocks, but some are just drawing objects that I want to have certain properties, without having to change layer, or something else. My first one was to draw a revcloud (with preferred layer, calligraphy style, etc) and copy/paste it to my CFK_TOOLS. Properties can be adjusted on the fly, but remain until changed back.

Yes, Change IS Good.

Re: Hatch dialog box

fkellogg — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:21:11 GMT

I think the "Dear Auto cad" was symbolic, not literal.
(Strange, system won't let me type A u t o c a d together.)

Re: Hatch dialog box

pendean — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:48:37 GMT

@fkellogg wrote:

I think the "Dear Auto cad" was symbolic, not literal.
(Strange, system won't let me type A u t o c a d together.)

AutoCAD

Autocad

autocad

autoCAD

AUTOcad

Dear AutoCAD

Dear Autocad

Dear autocad

Dear autoCAD

Dear AUTOcad

"Dear AutoCAD"

"Dear Autocad"

"Dear autocad"

"Dear autoCAD"

"Dear AUTOcad"

Re: Hatch dialog box

fkellogg — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:34:45 GMT

autocad

Re: Hatch dialog box

pendean — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:44:58 GMT

@fkellogg wrote:
autocad

Seems to be working now. Nice.

Re: Hatch dialog box

fkellogg — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:51:42 GMT

I was trying to get it to spit out the error message I was getting.
Something about too many users, or some such.
Autocad

Re: Hatch dialog box

pendean — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:59:16 GMT

@fkellogg wrote:
I was trying to get it to spit out the error message I was getting.
Something about too many users, or some such.
Autocad

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