Overriding the HPLAYER value in a custom hatch tool

[Anonymous]

Hi there, a little help on this matter much appreciated. 

I am setting up a CAD standard dwg file at the office, and I have created a tool palette with some custom hatches. 

Each tool inserts its hatch pattern onto a specific layer (e.g concrete hatch on A-PATT_CONC, blockwork hatch on A-PATT_BLOK, etc....)

I set HPLAYER to A-PATT so that every new hatch created in the file will automatically go to that layer (trying to avoid hatches on wrong layers!)

The problem i am now facing is that the new HPLAYER value is overriding my hatches in the tool palette, and any hatch created from the tool palette is automatically going to A-PATT regardless of the layer setting in each tool.

Is there any way to get my hatch tools to ignore/override the HPLAYER value? I tried using layer keys but it seems hathces are not AEC objects. 

[john.vellek · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Here is the way I set up my hatch layers for patterns that I put on Tool Palettes. I select the Hatch on the Palette, Rt-click and select Properties.In the list of properties I can set the layer to an existing layer in the drawing. I also have options to pre-select other properties of the hatch to be inserted.

I hope this answers your question.

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[john.vellek]

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