hatching problem with xref

[Anonymous]

Hello all;

I am working in Autocad 2015 and a couple of users that are having problems with hatching areas in a drawing that is xref.

First, I had to dwg convert the file from Autocad Architecture 2010 down to Autocad with AEC objects exploded, so all the walls, doors, & windows are lines.  The version used in Architecture was a preliminary & now after a few weeks has changed since converted.

What is happening is that a floor plan is xref into a another drawing, and then when trying to hatch a wall of the xref (lines that make it up) an error message says that the boundary is not closed besides a few other options.  I go to the xref file & fillet each segment of linework to make sure that the "wall" is closed.  They do not like using polylines.

I'm not sure what to do, I checked the hatch gap, but that doesn't seem to work.  Also, zooming out doesn't work.  No luck with larger hatch scale or solid.  Everybody is blaming me, since these files were created under Architecture, and not happy that they have to make boundaries for each wall segments, which there are a lot of.

Suggestion?

Thanks in advance

Jleibold

[h_s_walker]

Just as a test.

Make one of your walls into a polyline and see if it's closed or open. You can explode polylines which will then become lines.

[Anonymous]

hwalker;

Thanks for the reply.

The test did not work.

I have an xref into my current drawing & when I try to put a hatch within a wall area, one out of 20 different places it works.  We don't want the hatch on the xref file.

I can't figure out why hatching is so difficult....

Thanks again....

Jleibold

[ToanDN]

Just hatch the XREF file, then cut and paste onto your host file.

[pkolarik]

Waitaminute... you have floor plan "A" xref'd into drawing "B" and you're trying to use geometry from "A" as hatch boundaries while inside drawing "B"?

Just be aware that there are instances of drawings becoming corrupt when you use xref goemetry as hatch boundaries. (no, it doesn't happen often... but often enough that we tell everyone in our office not to do it)