Hatch with Rounded Edges

[Anonymous]

Please refer to the attached files. 

Capture.JPG is a visual of the problem i am experiencing. As you can see the True Color Hatch I am using has rounded edges and exceeds the line work.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I have attached the CAD file i am using if you would like to try it out a method to fix said issue.

Thank you to anyone for can help me.

[Patchy]

Don't use true color that's all and you'll have option to make them square ends

[Anonymous]

I was hoping to avoid that. We use True Colors to illustrate the Brickwork color for our clients visual.

[imadHabash]

Hi,

if i understand your need....this is a Lineweight issue and you can fix it by making LWDISPLAY = OFF.

Command: LWDISPLAY
Enter new value for LWDISPLAY <OFF>:

Regards,

[Anonymous]

My LWDISPLAY was already set to OFF.

MY issue is with the attached file. IF you look towards the area in the red circle. i do not want those round edges to display & pint

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

Did your question get answered in this thread? If so, please mark the post(s) as Solutions in order to help other community members.

[jggerth]

I'm presuming that the image is a pic of your final output, not the onscreen display in CAD.

If that's the case, edit your CTB / STB file and check the Line End Style settings in the plot style editor.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Patchy wrote:

Don't use true color that's all and you'll have option to make them square ends

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In Plotting, you can designate the shape of line ends [the "Butt" option would be what you want for this] for the 1-255 colors, but not for True Colors.  HOWEVER, note that one of the options is to use the object's line end style.  For objects with lineweight, this tells how to assign them a line end style.  Presumably that ought to apply even to True Color objects, though I haven't experimented with it -- does that do the trick for a True Color Hatch pattern?

[Patchy]

But there is no option for square ends if the color is True Color

Unless in newer versions of Autocad has changed, I just don't see it.

[jggerth]

Patchy -- you are correct -- not a option for TrueType using CTB plotting.  I don't typically use use STB, but possibly the 'line end' can be set there?

[jggerth]

Patchy -- you are correct -- not a option for TrueType using CTB plotting.  I don't typically use use STB, but possibly the 'line end' can be set there?

alternative would be to use thinner lines grouped together to 'fake' a fat line.  They'd still be rounded ends, but a lot smaller.  

[Anonymous]

If only AutoCAD allowed the same options for True Colors!

The Colored Line work you see in my Drawings is a Hatch, with a thickness added to the hatch to illustrate brickwork.

In doing so the thickness is so thick that it has a very rounded end finish.

If anyone wants to test out the file i attached above "test.DWG" maybe they can play with the file and see what works?

Someone who knows a lot more about AutoCAD then me obviously.

Thanks everyone for the help so far.

[Kent1Cooper]

@Kent1Cooper wrote:

In Plotting, you can designate the shape of line ends [the "Butt" option would be what you want for this] for the 1-255 colors, but not for True Colors.  HOWEVER, note that one of the options is to use the object's line end style.  For objects with lineweight, this tells how to assign them a line end style.  ....

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Looking more closely, that so-called Help item doesn't really say how to do it as an object property even though it uses that very wording.  I tried what it says, picking Butt for the line end style in the Plot Style Editor without any 1-255 color selected, but it didn't do the trick.  I was hoping to find something about it on these Forums, but there may not actually be a way -- I found this thread with exactly the same question, and no answer -- just a workaround about using Polylines with width, which in this OP's case would mean Exploding the Hatch pattern and converting all the pieces to Polylines.  I did check the No-this-didn't-help thing on that "Help" page, and described the issue.  But I don't know how to expect any notification if there is a way that none of us seem to have been able to find.

[Anonymous]

OK no worries then just one of those issues that don't always have an answer.

I will go with the Polyline Trick you suggest for the letterbox, at 1:50 scale i believe this will help. At 1:100 the hatch works fine with a .5 line at the boundary of each hatch.

Thank you everyone who assisted in trying fix this problem. Hopefully AutoCAD's next version can fix this.

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

As far as I know, you can't really do this with True Color lines. Perhaps if the condition allowed you could place a wipeout on the ends or place another object over the ends and bring it to the front with Draw Order.

[dbroad · Accepted solution]

Todd,

If you need a true color plot but do not need a true color screen display, just add or edit a plot style and pick a true color mapping to the index colors.  Every index color can be mapped to a true color.  This would allow you to have line end styles that you want and have true color plots.

[john.vellek]

Hi @dbroad,

Duh! of course! Excellent answer.

[Patchy]

Duh! me brain dead ☺

[Anonymous]

Ok everyone else seems to be able to make it work but me?

See the attached file "Capture 1", i made the layer Index Color 10, then changed the Color Control to the Selected True Color i wanted.

See the attached file "Capture 2", i then changed the CTB Line end style to "Butt"

See the attached file "Model (1)", i did not work for me.

Have i done something wrong?

[Patchy]

I change the hatch to color 100 then modify the color in the plot style