Hatching overlapping areas with hatch in tool palette

Either I am doing something wrong, or hatch doesn't work the same on tool palettes as it does in the hatch command.

When I select a polyline I want to use as the boundary for my hatch (before I go to my hatch in the hatches tool palette), if it overlaps other areas it only hatches up to the first entity that it intersects, completely ignoring the fact I selected a closed polyline.

Is there a way to change this behaviour, so whatever is selected is the boundary?

I have attached a drawing which should explain what I am saying.


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  • Hello.

    I also have hatches in a toolpalette and it works fine within your drawing.
    The command within my tool is: (command "_hatch" "E" "Ansi31" ".02" "0" "T" "S" "A" "")
    If I want to choose a pline as hatchborder I have to press "w" for "wählen" (german for choose) after selecting the tool.
    Does this help?

    Greets,

    Sascha
  • Sascha,

    Thanks for the reply, I will give it a try.

    It's a shame you can't just drag and drop to a selected set of entities from the tool palette, as this would be by far the quickest way of hatching from a tool palette; as you can have all your favourite hatches with their layers and scale already set up for each specific requirement.

    Maybe someone at Bricsys will see this and consider it for a future update.

    Thanks again,

    David Waight
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