Freezes when hatch selected

Dakotah Bertsch
Dakotah Bertsch
in 2D Drafting
Hi, not sure if this is the place to post this. I have a hatch pattern in my drawing that I want to erase but whenever I select it, the program crashes (freezes) and I end up having to reboot.  Right now I am just working around it by freezing the layer that the hatch is on.  It is not a dense hatch, so I don't understand what the problem is... I just installed v14, running Windows 7, no add-on programs.  Thanks if you can help.

Comments

  • John Gaunt
    John Gaunt
    You could try selecting E(rase) before selecting the object, if you haven't already.
  • Jason Bourhill
    Jason Bourhill
    Hi John,

    have you tried doing an _AUDIT or _RECOVER on the drawing?

    Regards,

    Jason Bourhill

    CAD Concepts
  • Dakotah Bertsch
    Dakotah Bertsch
    Hi John and Jason,

    Thanks for your suggestions.  I tried John's suggestion of entering Erase before selecting the object, and THAT WORKED!  I had tried running Audit and it fixed some errors but that didn't affect the problem.  Not sure about recover.  Anyway, it is still a mystery why this hatch area would cause everything to freeze when selected, but thank you for the work-around. 
  • John Gaunt
    John Gaunt

    It has been noted in this forum, that any editing/selection operation can lag when a large number of entities are preselected but it doesn't seem to happen when the command is issued first.

    Hatches can represent a large number of entities.

    I have not struck the issue lately, maybe it was fixed or maybe the situation has not occurred for me.

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