hatch edit

[htews]

I forgot how to edit hatches quickly.  Between 2 points, I want to smooth out the hatch WIHOUT editing individual pickpoints.

[cadffm]

Hi,

you asking in AutoCAD board, so the answer is: You can't forgot it, because there is no ootb solution.

Perhaps you used another software or a 3rd party tool.

[paullimapa]

Assuming the hatch boundary is there then that would be a Pline. You can use Pedit to edit vertices. You’ll have to break at those two points. Then use Pedit Vertices Move option to place one next to the other and if needed use Pedit Join option to make boundary again for the Hatch now to shade through the toilet

[paullimapa]

Another method again when there’s a pline boundary (if not you can use Hatchedit to create the boundary) you can use the Trim command to remove that segment and Erase whatever that’s left over and then Grip one of the points to move on top of the other. But you may still need Pedit to join them back as a single boundary 

[htews]

Yes, I know i'm in the autoCAD forum.

hmm.....

[fkellogg]

Down & dirty. (assuming you basically want the toilet area to be hatched)

Draw a vertical line to the left of the toilet.

Trim the hatch.

Drag the midpoint grip to the right wall.

If I know there is stuff in the way, prior to hatching I will either move it temporarily out of the way, or turn off the layer.

I always use hatch by area, and hatches on a tool palette.

[htews]

YES.  I got it.

(RC = right click)

right click - Generate Boundary

RC boundary,

RC Polyline - edit polyline

edit vertex

next - straighten

go to the vertex and select it.

done

[Kent1Cooper]

@paullimapa wrote:

Assuming the hatch boundary is there then that would be a Pline. You can use Pedit to edit vertices. You’ll have to break at those two points. ....

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No, you don't have to break it [nor therefore to reconnect it].  PEDIT's Edit-vertex procedure includes a Straighten option.  PEDIT, select the Polyline, Edit-vertex option, Next repeatedly until you get to the beginning of what you want to straighten [the "upstream" corner of the edge that toilet lies along], Straighten option, Next repeatedly until you get to the other end of that edge, then Go to take out all the vertices from where you started Straightening to where you are, and eXit out.

 

[paullimapa]

yep, if you prefer to cycle through all those vertices. another way would be to use the BREAK command. There's just so many options...

[fkellogg]

[paullimapa]

Exactly, to avoid cycling through all those vertices options are commands like: TRIM & BREAK

[paullimapa]

the "straighten" method as you pointed out actually works as long as you zoom in so that the view only shows those 2 points on the screen then there would not be a need to cycle through all the other vertices

[Kent1Cooper]

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@fkellogg wrote:

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I took that to mean only that they didn't want to repeatedly do the hover-over-a-vertex-grip-and-type-R-to-Remove-it procedure, one vertex at a time, all around that part of the boundary.  PEDITing with the Straighten option is quite a bit quicker than that, and doesn't "edit individual pickpoints" but jumps past them [assuming, of course, @paullimapa's initial stipulation in Message 4 that it is an Associative Hatch and the boundary exists as a Polyline, which may not be their situation anyway].

[Kent1Cooper]

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@paullimapa wrote:

the "straighten" method as you pointed out actually works as long as you zoom in so that the view only shows those 2 points on the screen then there would not be a need to cycle through all the other vertices

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Good point -- the Next option in PEDIT's Edit-vertex procedure always moves to the next vertex that's visible on-screen, so it will bypass those in between if they're out of view.

[fkellogg]

The "straighten" option does not seem to be there in my version 2022.

Hoping to upgrade soon.

Ifnwhen I do, I will be anxious to try something new!

I still prefer to not create the issue in the first place, by moving or turning off layers.

I wonder what the OP actually did?

[paullimapa]

it sure is there...I'm using 2020.

Here's the help on 2022:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-648BDC21-E835-478F-A318-9D201479998D

Make sure you use PEDIT, Edit vertex option & you should see Straighten as one of the items:

[cadffm]

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the "straighten" method the EDIT option of PEDIT

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@paullimapa @Kent1Cooper 

Forgotten or never knew, I don't know.

OMG, view depending. A typical bug or feature question and I answer it (for me) clearly with: A huge feature!
(combined with good Mbuttonpan/zoom skills, it takes a Second to jump to the wanted vertex)
I'm thrilled, no matter how embarrassed it is 😂 Okay, 99% of the time I use other tools for this work, but I'm still happy about this information.

[paullimapa]

Yes, this zoom in "bug/feature" for editing pline vertices was great and I think it started between r14 & 2000 9but don't quote me on this)....Perhaps something to do with how AutoCAD for windows communicated with the Windows graphics display driver...

[fkellogg]

GUILTY of not reading everyone's posts thoroughly enough. I apologize.

LEARNED about the (rather tedious) straighten option of the pedit command.

       I do do a lot of grip editing of polylines, so I may look into straighten.

STILL PREFER to simply draw a line, trim the hatch, and drag 1-2 points.