solid hatch - Xref problem

[mroizo]

hi,

I keep on havin' this odd problem, whenever I'm Xref'ing a drawing with a
solid hatch, Acad places the hatchings in front of all my other lines (=
like if I would select all the hatches and choose: display order - send to
front). I allready tried to send all the hatchings to the back, then resave
the drawing and xref them into a new plotfile. (I also tried to regenall the
plotfile before plotting -> same result).

Is this a known bug for Acad2002? any help or patches?

tia

willy

[guillermo quijano]

"mroizo" <willy.trappeniers2@pandora.be> wrote in message news:<PC2Ka.65934$1u5.5334@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>... hi, I keep on havin' this odd problem, whenever I'm Xref'ing a drawing with a solid hatch, Acad places the hatchings in front of all my other lines (= like if I would select all the hatches and choose: display order - send to front). I allready tried to send all the hatchings to the back, then resave the drawing and xref them into a new plotfile. (I also tried to regenall the plotfile before plotting -> same result). Is this a known bug for Acad2002? any help or patches? tia willy

hi
try this, place your hatch in a diferent dwg (xref-a) then go to your
host dwg and xref your xref-a. then do your display order.
hope this help

guillermo

[Dennis]

If I understand correctly, this is actually not an odd problem. You've
got lineworks in your drawing, then you create solid hatches over the
lines. When you regen this drawing, naturally AutoCAD will generate
the lines first, then the solid hatches. So in most cases you will
have solid hatches covering lines.

I've tried "display order" before. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it
only works on the screen. When you try to print, the drawing is
regenerated again, and you end up with hatches over lines again.

What I usually do is -- after doing the hatches, I "block" everything
else out and make a temporarily block within the drawing file.
Immediately I insert the block back to the drawing at the same
location, exploding the block at the same time. So now I have linework
over hatches. Don't forget to purge the file to get rid of the
temporary block.

In my limited experience, it solves the "object order" problem once
and for all.

Hope it helps.

Dennis Pang