Common Options (Hatch and Gradient Dialog Box)

Defines boundary and property settings that are shared by gradients and hatches.

These options are available on both tabs in the Hatch and Gradient dialog box.

List of Options

Boundaries

Add: Pick Points

Determines a boundary from existing objects that form an enclosed area around the specified point.

• Pick Internal Point

  While specifying internal points, you can right-click in the drawing area at any time to display a shortcut menu that contains several options.

  

  If you turn on Island Detection, objects that enclose areas within the outermost boundary are detected as islands. How HATCH detects objects using this option depends on which island detection method is specified.

  Note: Red circles are displayed at unconnected endpoints of boundary objects to identify gaps in the hatch boundary. These circles are temporary and can be removed with REDRAW or REGEN.

Add: Select Objects

Determines a boundary from selected objects that form an enclosed area.

• Select Objects

  Interior objects are not automatically detected. You must select the objects within the selected boundary to hatch or fill those objects according to the current island detection style.

  

  Each time you click Select Objects, HATCH clears the previous selection set.

  

  While selecting objects, you can right-click at any time in the drawing area to display a shortcut menu. You can undo the last selection or all selections, change the selection method, change the island detection style, or preview the hatch or fill.

Remove Boundaries

Removes from the boundary definition any of the objects that were added previously.

• Select Objects

  Removes objects from the boundary definition.

  
• Add Boundaries

  Adds objects to the boundary definition.

Recreate Boundary

Creates a polyline or region around the selected hatch or fill, and optionally associates the hatch object with it.

View Selections

Displays the currently defined boundaries with the current hatch or fill settings. This option is available only when a boundary has been defined.

Select Boundary Objects

Selects the objects that form the boundaries of the selected associative hatch object. Use the displayed grips to modify the hatch boundaries.

Note: This option is available only in the Hatch Edit dialog box and replaces the View Selections option.

When you select an associative hatch, a single, circular grip called the control grip is displayed. No boundary grips are displayed because the boundaries of an associative hatch can be modified only by changing its associated boundary objects. Use the Select Boundary Objects option to select and grip-edit the boundary objects.

To modify the boundaries of a nonassociative hach, you modify the boundaries of the hatch object itself. Thus, when you select a nonassociative hatch, both the control grip and the boundary grips are displayed.

Options

Controls several commonly used hatch or fill options.

Annotative

Specifies that the hatch is annotative. This property automates the process of scaling annotations so that they plot or display at the correct size on the paper. (HPANNOTATIVE system variable)

Associative

Specifies that the hatch or fill is associative. A hatch or fill that is associative is updated when you modify its boundary objects. (HPASSOC system variable)

Create Separate Hatches

Controls whether a single hatch object or multiple hatch objects are created when several separate closed boundaries are specified. ( HPSEPARATE system variable)

Draw Order

Assigns a draw order to a hatch or fill. You can place a hatch or fill behind all other objects, in front of all other objects, behind the hatch boundary, or in front of the hatch boundary. ( HPDRAWORDER system variable)

Layer

Assigns new hatch objects to the specified layer, overriding the current layer. Select Use Current to use the current layer. (HPLAYER system variable)

Transparency

Sets the transparency leve for new hatch or fills, overriding the current object transparency. Select Use Current to use the current object transparency setting. (HPTRANSPARENCY system variable)

Inherit Properties

Hatches or fills specified boundaries using the hatch or fill properties of a selected hatch object.

After selecting the hatch object whose properties you want the hatch to inherit, right-click in the drawing area and use the options on the shortcut menu to switch between the Select Objects and Pick Internal Point options.

The HPINHERIT system variable controls whether the hatch origin of the resulting hatch is determined by HPORIGIN or by the source object.

Preview

Displays the currently defined boundaries with the current hatch or fill settings. Click in the drawing area or press Esc to return to the dialog box. Right-click or press Enter to accept the hatch or fill.

More Options Expansion Button

Expands the Hatch and Gradient dialog box to display more options.