High Quality Geometry Issue

[bwb]

I was tasked today with updating a drawing that a coworker had been working on previously. When I opened the drawing I noticed about a dozen hatch objects that looks like they had been accidentally copied. The hatch objects are not closed so they end up being extremely large (think a 1 mile long road and the hatch is filling the entire "empty space").

I can see the hatching on my machine in multiple versions of the drawing, so I know it is in there. When my coworkers open the drawing they do not see it. 

I get the error "...disabled high quality geometry". However, none of us have an option to enable high quality geometry that I would expect to see based on the troubleshooting articles on Autodesk.com.

Anyone have any insight on this?

I attached a screengrab of my graphics properties dialog and a shot of the drawing that shows the hatch objects (green)

[pendean]

Can you share the actual DWG file here?

And what versions of AutoCAD as listed in ABOUT command do you and your coworkers use?

[bwb]

version: Q. 152.0.0 AutoCad 2020.1.4

Thanks!

[pendean]

Thanks for the file: your posted 3MB file is missing fonts and xrefs, a quick -PURGE run shows not much there and the file size shrinks to 700kb. AUDIT found one error, which probably means nothing..

See if this tip can help you with the issue that you see https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/high-q...

If not, you might just have to turn off hardware acceleration in GRAPHICSCONFIG command and see if that solves it.

[bwb]

I don't think the fonts or the xref would've caused the issue. I deleted the xref and ran another audit which found some more errors. However, my drawing is still 3mb after purging. I'll upload another dwg and screenshots (one shows the hatching in model space when I load and the other shows the geometry error I get).

I have already looked through that troubleshooting guide, which is why I'm here. In the article it instructs you to toggle the "high quality geometry" setting, which I do not have.

So the issue is, there is hatching in this drawing that I cannot see when AutoCad automatically disables the high quality geometry.

Based on my specs, I shouldn't have to disable graphics acceleration to work with a hatch...but that doesn't help anyway.

I know I can run laydel command and remove the layer, but that might not always be an option.

Just trying to figure out how to turn high quality geometry on so I can select and get rid of this hatch.

Thanks again!