AutoCAD LT - Turn off Fillmode on selected hatches/layers

[simongilbertTCXH6]

Hi, 

I receive architect's drawings with a lot of hatch fills for items like furniture, cars etc.
When preparing the drawing for our annotations (we annotate data outlets and AV requirements) I often go through layer by layer and turn off what I can, or physically delete the hatch fill. This often involves going into the block editor and messing around. 

Is there a way I can strip the fill from the model entirely? I've tried fillmode - however when I then add our drawing template, all our icons are also missing their own hatch fill on the paper.

I like to remove all the hatch colour fills from the original drawing and turn all layers to black to remove any distractions from our annotation. 

Unless there is a simpler way to achieve this?

Appreciate any help on this 🙂

Si

[ The subject line of this post has been edited to include the product name by @handjonathan ]

[pendean]

SELECTSIMILAR is a great built-in command to, well, select items that are similar like your hatches and fills.
Same with FILTER and QSELECT commands. Give those a try, then ERASE or move or whatever it is you need done after that.

LAYER and PROPERTIES command to do that second item "...turn all layers to black...".

HTH

[simongilbertTCXH6]

Thanks for the prompt response pendean.

I've played around with SELECTSIMILAR before, but it's not quite what I'm after. It's frustrating, FILL or FILLMODE does exactly what I need on the model, just not the desired outcome when I include our template. 

I've attached a drawing I've recently received as an example. Some blocks, such as the MOT equipment does not allow me to edit their fill/hatch. 

[h_s_walker]

All the hatching is on a layer called HATCH COLOUR - EXISTING. I just turned it off. And I can't edit those "blocks" either as they have somehow given them the internal AutoCAD naming convention for changes made to a dynamic block. See the image below

[pendean]

As noted by others, your sample file is quite well organized by layer, took about a minute to find and freeze those layers to make all the hatching/fills go away. Any reason that is not an option?

There are a couple of errant hatches left, a quick move of them to one of those hatch layers fixed that. 30-seconds

Setting all LAYER colors to WHITE get you almost there: using PROPERTIES to set all objects to BYLAYER gets you closers. SETBYLAYER command's many options fixed your BLOCKs that do not conform to BYLAYER for color. 2-minutes.

Using SELECTSIMILAR command to isolate the two DIMSTYLEs with override colors for dimline and dimtext took care of those. 1-minute.

The only thing you cannot change from the outside in LT are these two MTEXT with color overrides inside the editors

I lost track since I was typing at the same time, but isn't that about 5-ish minutes to turn your outside DWG file to a no-color hidden-hatches/fill result you wanted? See attached.

Learning the program and getting very comfortable with it, aka the tool of your trade, comes in very handy: but it takes time to get there for sure. Invest in that time.  The billable rewards later are priceless.

HTH

[handjonathan]

Hi @simongilbertTCXH6  

Thanks a lot for posting your question to the forums!   Have the solutions suggested by @pendean & @h_s_walker helped with your issue?

  

We look forward to hearing back from you with more information so we can help you as a community!