2D ELEVATIONS

[ByronU78KM]

We have a unique situation that I don't understand.  I have a view drawing where I have cut some interior elevations and created 2d elevations. when I refresh on one computer the surface hatch shows. Then on another computer I refresh the same 2delevations and the surface hatch goes away. What would change from compute to computer?

Thanks Byron

[yanhan.lim]

Hi @ByronU78KM ,

Thanks for your query on the AutoCAD Architecture forum. We thank you for your patience. 

It would be very helpful if we can get more context of what's going on in your drawing. For instance:

• Are these custom hatches
• Does it only occur on one particular drawing
• Does this impact all hatches/objects

Sharing screenshots or a sample file of this issue occurring would be greatly appreciated to get a better understanding (do remember to remove any confidential elements when sharing drawings on the forum, alternatively you may private message me for more privacy).

In the meanwhile, this article may help in troubleshooting your hatch issue on the 2nd computer: 

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Hatch-pattern-does...

Best regards,

Yanhan

[rwrightWMDSY]

The first thing I would check is whether both computer access the hatch pattern definition file from the same source or not.  

[pendean]

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@ByronU78KM wrote:

...Then on another computer I refresh the same 2delevations and the surface hatch goes away...

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"refresh" means....? Try REGENALL command, not REGEN, not REDRAW, see if that helps instead.

It may well be a video card/driver display issue on the second PC: what does ABOUT command inside the program on each PC state you two are running? Share both screenshots here.

Also compare 9and share here) GRAPHICSCONFIG command pop-ups inside each program from each PC here too.

[David_W_Koch]

As noted in the link provided by @yanhan.lim, check the settings of HPMAXLINES on both machines.  Hatches, including those in generated 2D Section/Elevation objects, will not be generated if they have more line segments than the value set in HPMAXLINES.  If one machine's number is under the number of segments and the other's is over, that would produce the scenario you describe.