Room Area - Hatched

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Currently working on a project where each room of a floor plan needs to be zoned by a coloured hatch which references to a colour key on the title block. My question is this... is there a quicker/ better workflow than tracing around the room outlines with the polyline command then hatching the polyline.

I have looked at the pick point & gap tolerance options but it takes a long time and often freezes.

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks.

[ennujozlagam]

So far that's the only way to do it. If it freezes try to install latest updates from autodesk and see if helps. thanks

[imadHabash]

Hi,

for me ... tracing lines is the best practical way . just turn off all unwnated layers and with proper osnap to make it easy for work and when you finish ... believe me you will get accepted and elegant work . 

>> I have looked at the pick point & gap tolerance options but it takes a long time and often freezes. <<

it's Normal ... especially when you have a lot of details lines and arcs around . 

Regards,

[dbroad]

If you move up to AutoCAD Architecture, spaces and walls are associative and you can control their display style based on display themes that have their own legends.

[Anonymous]

Create the polyline for the boundary (don't forget to close it) then use the select objects method instead of pick points in the hatch command.

At the Select Objects: prompt, you could type in L as a way of selecting the polyline without having to pick it.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:
... is there a quicker/ better workflow than tracing around the room outlines with the polyline command then hatching the polyline.
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What I typically do is to make a Layer for door- and window-head edges [which I will use in reflected ceiling plans, but turn off in regular floor plans], and draw Lines only across the door and window openings, rather than Polylines all the way around the rooms.  Then with just the wall and door/window-head Layers on [plus, of course, the Hatching Layer on and current], Hatching rooms by picking points is easy and quick.

[ara_neresesian]

hi

just for faster action just Ctrl+c the area which you want to do hatch in to a new drawing with paste as original

coordinate  and then run hatch command .

in the new drawing its so fast because it is a light file not so heavy 

and when you done you can cut hatch and paste it to your original file  with  paste as original coordinate 

i am using this method when my file is to large.