Hatch messages

Messages appear in the status bar at the bottom, as a notice window over the drawing (disappears by itself after a few seconds) or as a bubble at the mouse pointer. The texts are given here as the program shows them; placeholders such as pattern or n stand for the respective value.

Area not found#

No closed area found · No closed area found. Please click inside a fully enclosed area.#

Notice window: No closed area found. Please click inside a fully enclosed area.

Cause: No closed loop of edges lies around the clicked point. Usually the boundary is open at a corner — two end points lie further apart than the tolerance —, or a boundary edge is on a hidden layer, is dashed while the line type filter is on, or the click was outside every area.

Remedy: Zoom in on the corners and check the end points with the Endpoint snap mode; raise the tolerance slightly; show layers; switch off Only solid lines as boundary; or define the area manually.

No closed area in the visible view — bring the whole area into view or switch the option off · No closed area found in the visible view. The whole area to fill must be in view — please zoom out or switch off the option “Visible area only” in the hatch dialog.#

Status bar: No closed area in the visible view — bring the whole area into view or turn the option off. Notice window: The whole area to fill must be in view — please zoom out or turn off the option „Visible area only" in the hatch dialog.

Cause: Visible area only (faster) is on, and part of the boundary lies outside the view.

Remedy: Zoom out until the whole area is visible, or switch the option off.

No closed area found in the viewport / No closed area found. Please click inside a fully enclosed area of the model geometry.#

Notice window: Please click inside a fully enclosed area of the model geometry.

Cause: The click was inside a viewport in paper space, but neither on the sheet nor in the model is there a closed area around the point. With a manual outline from the model: the viewport no longer exists.

Remedy: Click inside a closed area of the model geometry; if in doubt, check in model space whether the area can be hatched there.

No closed area here — nothing created#

Cause: When dropping the seed point with Ctrl held down, there is no closed area at the drop point.

Remedy: Drop inside a closed area.

No closed area at the new seed point — point reset#

Cause: The seed point was dragged to a spot without a closed area. The hatch stays unchanged, the point jumps back.

Outside the viewport — point reset#

Cause: The seed point of a through-hatch was dragged out of the viewport. The seed point of a through-hatch must stay inside the viewport.

The viewport of this through-hatch no longer exists#

Cause: The viewport through which the hatch was created has been deleted. The hatch can no longer be updated or moved.

Remedy: Delete the hatch and create it anew in an existing viewport.

Area found#

Hatch: searching for the boundary … / Schraffur: Linien werden berechnet …#

Shown while the program works; on large drawings the boundary search may take a few seconds. No action needed.

Hatch created: pattern (n islands) / Hatch created: pattern#

The hatch has been created; the brackets name the excluded islands. If the brackets are missing, no islands were found — with Exclude islands on, a hint that an expected island was not recognized (see Islands).

Hatch created in the viewport: pattern#

A through-hatch has been created.

Hatch: error during boundary search / Hatch: error during calculation#

Cause: An internal error in the boundary search or the pattern calculation, e.g. with unusual geometry.

Remedy: Repeat the operation, if necessary define the area manually. If the message persists, please send the drawing to support.

Manual area definition#

Manual area: click boundary elements (including crossing ones) — as soon as an area closes it is filled; further loops inside become islands. Enter/“Hatch” creates it, ESC cancels#

Full text: … as soon as an area closes it is colored; further inner loops become islands. Enter/“Hatch” creates, ESC cancels. Appears when switching to Manual and explains the procedure.

Manual area: n element(s) chosen — boundary not yet closed#

The chosen elements do not yet form a closed loop. Click further boundary elements.

Area closed — Enter/„Hatch" creates it, more elements selectable as islands#

The loop is closed and colored; the addition · n islands excluded names recognized islands. Create with Enter or choose further elements as islands.

Manual area: no element hit (n chosen)#

Cause: The click was beside every boundary element (pick range 8 screen pixels).

Remedy: Click closer to the element or zoom in.

Manual area: no elements chosen yet#

Enter or Hatch was pressed without an element chosen.

Manual area: no closed boundary yet — choose more (including crossing) elements#

Enter was pressed, but the chosen elements do not close. Add the missing elements — elements that merely cross the boundary are allowed too.

Manual hatch created: pattern — mode stays MANUAL: next area selectable (radio "Automatic" ends)#

The hatch has been created; manual mode stays active.

Manual area definition cancelled#

Esc, Cancel (ESC), switching to Automatic or a tool change discarded the selection.

Seed point#

Hatch seed point (bubble)#

When hovering over the black square: The black square marks the starting point of the area search. Drag it into another chamber and the hatch area is re-traced there.

Move the seed point — the boundary is searched again on release#

Status bar when grabbing the square. While dragging, the bubble shows Release: move the seed point here and Hold Ctrl: create a new hatch here with the same settings.

Seed point moved — hatch boundary searched again#

The seed point was dropped, the area searched there anew and the hatch changed accordingly.

Hatch copied — same settings at the new spot / Through-hatch copied — same settings at the new spot#

Dropped with Ctrl: the previous hatch stays, a new one with the same settings has been created at the drop point.

Settings and selection#

Hatch pattern: pattern — settings apply immediately#

Another pattern was chosen in the dialog; it applies to new hatches from now on.

Hatch settings saved / Point marker radius: r mm (whole drawing)#

OK was pressed in the dialog.

Hatch selected — boundary highlighted; move the Z level with PageUp/PageDown#

A hatch was clicked in the element list.

Through-hatch selected — not the viewport. Click the frame to select the viewport#

In paper space a through-hatch filling the viewport was clicked. Select the viewport itself via its frame.

Hatch attributes adopted (pattern »pattern«, layer, opacity)#

With Pick up [J], pattern, layer and opacity of a hatch were adopted as defaults for new hatches.

Other messages related to hatches#

The bubbles of the dialog fields (Tolerance for tangent detection …, Faster on large drawings … and others) are given field by field on the page Hatch Settings dialog.