Send Hatch Patterns to Back

Posted January 15, 2009 * Comments(6)

I hope you had a good New Years. I sure did! I’m just getting back to blogging after a holiday break.

Have you ever been frustrated that your hatch patterns always cover other objects no matter how many times you set the draw order to send it to back?

Type HPDRAWORDER on the command line and set it to 1.

You can also set this in the BHATCH dialog box:

6 Comments so far

  1. uukprasad on January 27th, 2009

    thk u for ur tips

  2. Ken on February 24th, 2009

    How about using wipeout, and using draw order using text above or in front.

  3. Devans on March 10th, 2009

    -great tip! This has been bugging me alot lately.

  4. Leland Leahy on May 1st, 2009

    For hatch from others or older drawings, this routine helps!(defun c:HatchBack  (/ SS1) (if (setq SS1 (ssget "_x" (list (cons 0 "HATCH"))))  (command ".draworder" ss1 "" "back") ))

  5. Jennifer on August 4th, 2009

    I also found that occasionally when you open old drawings in a newer version of AutoCAD you run into this issue.
    HPDRAWORDER does not work in this case, the only way I found to fix this is to select all the objects then Copy and Paste them into a blank new drawing.  Then your Hatch objects will stay set to back.

  6. TxKowboy on November 6th, 2009

    Worked perfectly.

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