AutoCAD - Line Segments

[cturlington]

Hello,

I am using AutoCAD 2017.

I have set my max hatch scale by a system variable "MaxHatch" which works nicely for keeping annotative hatch visible in a particular view.  However, I would also like to keep my hatch boundaries linework from disappearing from view.  Is there a similar setting for setting the max line segments that can be viewed at a particular scale ?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> However, I would also like to keep my hatch boundaries

>> linework from disappearing from view

What type of "linework" are the borders? If they are polylines/lines/arcs/splines then these objects don't have an annotative setting, so they can't appear/disappear depending on scales.

So the questions are:

• which type of objects are the boundaries
• when do they appear, when do they disappear
• can you upload the drawing so we can test this on our workstations?

- alfred -

[cturlington]

Attached is the hatch and linework.  The hatch boundary linework are polylines.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> I would also like to keep my hatch boundaries linework from disappearing from view

Thank you for the drawing!

Looking to the drawing I see:

• coordinates in a very high area
• hatches with billions of points
• polylines with thousands of vertices

...all together handicaps for AutoCAD's display performance!

Anyway: I was able to reproduce the issue, that the polylines (the ones with high numbers of vertices) disappears with a specific zoom factor.

On my system I could get rid of it by starting command _GRAPHICSCONFIG and disable the option "High quality geometry (...)"

HTH, - alfred -

[pendean]

If you are able, move your drawing closer to 0,0,0 and your issues should go away, since it is currently 2.3million+ feet away from those coordinates.