GENERATE BOUNDARY (AEC POLYGON) FROM HATCH

[jesse]

Hello, I have had an odd issue occur with "generate boundary" on a hatch. I usually take wall fill hatches from architects plans and make AEC polygons using the generate boundary command. This allows me to show them in 2d plans as i like with the AEC styleS. I assume there is a system variable that controls what boundary is produced when using this (GENERATE BOUNDARY) command but i have yet to find it. Thanks in advance.  

[David_W_Koch]

According to the Help, the vanilla AutoCAD HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY command creates a non-associated Polyline around a selected hatch.  I am not aware of an AEC redefinition of that command that would allow choosing an AEC Polygon instead of the Polyline.  I also see that there is no right-click context menu choice to directly convert a (closed) Polyline to an AEC Polygon.

Looks like you will need to have one or more AEC Polygon Styles created, and then set up an AEC Polygon tool palette tool for each of those.  Then you can select the Polyline, right-click the desired tool and choose Apply Tool Properties to > Closed Polyline.  Not the one-command option your want, but it may be workable for you.

You may be able to create an AutoLISP function that combines the HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY and  AecPolygonToolToPline commands to allow you to select the hatch and end up with an AEC Polygon.  If you only have one AEC Polygon Style you use for this purpose, or do not mind changing the Style afterwards, that may suit your workflow better.

[jesse]

Thank you! the aecpolygontooltopline command works for me.

I should have mentioned this in the post, I just upgraded from AA2010. In that version the right click option from a hatch to generate boundary did return an aec polygon. 

Thanks again for your help.