Annotative Hatching Scaling Issue

[Anonymous]

I am trying to create standard Hatch patterns for the office using the Tool Palette. I am using a drawing with an annotation scale of 1"=1'-0" as a reference to the hatch scale. The hatch patterns from this drawing are NOT annotative but have the scale we need. I have created ANNOTATIVE hatches from that drawing but when switching to different scales they do not match the scale representative to its annotations. For example; I have scaled the NON-ANNOTATIVE hatch to a 1/2" = 1'-0" as a reference. Upon switching my ANNOTATIVE hatch to 1/2" = 1'-0", THEY DO NOT MATCH. And sometimes toggling through the annotative scales it eventually becomes solid and will not scale back?

Is it best to start annotative hatching at 1:1? This would seem difficult when trying to match hatching already in use at other scales?

Best Regards,

JD3

[TheCADnoob]

would you be able to share an example file?

[gotphish001]

I've had some issues with hatches off a palette. What seems to happen in my case is I have the hatch on the palette so it comes in on a certain layer. It sometimes works and sometimes comes in on a what seemed like random layer. I found that when inserting the hatch off the palette it seems go off of the hpdlgmode dialog box and not what the palette hatch is actually set to for some of the variables even if I didn't have the hpdlgmode set to show up. Like if the hpdlgmode dialog was set for the hatch to go in on a specific layer instead of "current layer" it would go in on that layer instead of the layer the palette hatch was set to go in on. How the hpdlgmode dialog would get changed when I didn't even have it set to show up was when I was hatching and using match properties. When I matched them it would change the hpdlgmode dialog to what I was matching, but it didn't go back to what it was. The fix was to turn on the hpdlgmode window, start a hatch command, set the dialog to what I wanted (in my case add hatch to current layer) then put a hatch in anywhere and then delete it. Yes, a pain. If you just changed the dialog, the settings wouldn't stick. You actually had to fulling place the hatch and finish the command.  Maybe something similar is happening with your hatches. If you don't know what I'm talking about with the hpdlgmode dialog, run the command hpdlgmode and change the variable to 1 (I think 1 is on). Start hatch command and you will get the gpdlgmode dialog window. Check the settings in there. If it is set to nonannotative maybe that is why the hatches are coming in wrong.