How to hatch thin metal sheeting into flashings

[AKL-STEEL]

Hi

I have the factory dwg for the flashings we use, but as i to hatch them, there seems to be a gap or to that i cant connect. Can some one please show me how to do this. 

Iw attached the file.

[leeminardi]

Giving the hatch and selecting the geometry seems to work fine.

[AKL-STEEL]

I can hatch the profile. My gap tolerance is set to maximum.

Can it have something to with other settings.

[imadHabash · Accepted solution]

Click on below image and try to make a polyline around your shape .. then Hatch by Select option.

[AKL-STEEL]

Excellent, you solved it (the topic), anyway iam not completing my goal. You see. The drawing is made so that i can create a profile in tekla, and I thought the issue where that there were gaps between the lines.

But it maight just be something else. If anyone have any experiance with creating sectins in autocad for tekla profile plz tell me what i do wrong. And I hope I dont brake any rules mentioning Tekla in this forum.

[ВeekeeCZ]

It works for me too. See https://autode.sk/3TSGkgD 

Here are some tricks.

1) the best results and the most reliable way is to create an outer boundary of the closed polyline, then hatch this object. To be able to do that, you need to clear your boundary objects from overlaps. There is one place where you have 3 lines overlapping, that's an issue that needs to be fixed. You can use OVERKILL to help this out.

This method is reliable but could be time-consuming.

2) Hatch by picking an internal point. Better set some gap tolerance, 

When hatching, make sure that you can see the entire boundary on your screen. This is essential. I know, that then you might get into trouble to hit the gap but that's the way it is. If this does not help, just draw a line or two to shrink the hatched area... and harch that separately. Even that are some cases that are impossible to hatch by picking an internal point (mostly arc-to-arc intersections)... in these cases, you will need to draw the outer boundary manually using a closed polyline and hatch this object.

HTH

[AKL-STEEL]

Hi and thx. So good to get some input, cause its driving me a bit mad due to time limitations.

Thanks for pointing to a fault that can be the reason behind why tekla does not show the section as a profile when defining it as a dwg.

I will try this option when iam back on my desktop (currently workig from the football fields, kid trainig)

Can I bother you with finishing this profile for me so that it has a closed boundary without overlapping lines, and then share it with me here in this thread. If tekla excepts this that would realy fuel my drive to have the next 30 flashing edited to work.

[AKL-STEEL]

Hi

Overkill did the trick,  Now Iam creating profiles easily. Thank you sow much. I was afraid I had to redraw them all.