Unhatching part of a hatch

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm trying to unhatch part of a hatched section of my plan and can't figure it out (although I did actually do it but now I can't remember HOW I did it!)

I've hatched all the room polylines on my plan but don't want the hatch to show on my room blocks/names.  I thought it was the trim command but I can't figure it out.

Thanks!

[imadHabash]

Hi,

If do yo want to hatch all the room except Blocks,names and furnitures you have to choose Pick internal point choice when hatch NOT select object.

Good Luck.. 

[nrz13]

It sounds like you want a background mask turned on for your text.  If you hatch the rooms with the text on, it should automatically exclude an area around the text, though.

Other ways to edit the hatch (HATCHEDIT) would be to make it non-associative and drag grips, separate hatches and delete the ones you don't want, or use the TRIM command.  The TRIM command can be tricky sometimes.  It sometimes only works well by selecting specific cutting edges instead of all edges.

[jggerth]

two ways I can think of offhand --

1) put a background mask on your room names, and moive them to the top of the DrawOrder

2) use the Hatchedit command, recerate the boundaries, the erase the old hatch and re-hatch, selecting the newly generated boundary and the text/block you want to not be covered by the hatch.  

[Anonymous]

trim will work if you draw a pl around the names first

[Anonymous]

I have my room numbers inserted as a blcok though and not text so I don't think masking would work??

[Anonymous]

There is a pl drawn alread around the room number.  Can you walk me through the trim command though.  I've been trying and I can't seem to get it to work.

Thanks!

[jggerth]

use the hatchedit command, and set the hatch to NOT be associative.  The use the trim command, selecting the pline as the trim boundary, and the hatch inside it to be trimmed.

[nrz13]

If it's a block, just put a WIPEOUT in the block.

[Anonymous]

there's nothing magic about it, trim/enter/select pl/enter/select hatch to be removed

[Anonymous]

Thank you, second one was easy technique but it didn't came into my mind right away.Anyway thak you.

[dbroad]

Restating your need as I understand it, you don't want hatch running through your room names.  Solutions:

1. If the room names/numbers are attributes within a block, then adding a wipeout to the tag block as explained earlier would avoid the need to edit/explode/trim the hatch. Draworder is used to move the tag blocks to the front or the hatchtoback command sends all hatch below everything.

2. If there is a box around the room names/numbers, hatchedit and add the box to the boundaries by selecting it.

3. If the room names/numbers are just text entites, just select all of them and use the properties palette to add background fill to them.

4. Trim the associative hatch. Select the objects to serve as trim boundaries first and then pick inside the bounding objects of the room names.

5. Avoid this solution: Explode and trim the hatch.