Showing posts with label Draw hatches always to back. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Draw hatches always to back. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

How to draw hatches always to back (below other objects)?

If you want to put your new hatches always and automatically "back" in the draw order - i.e. keeping the geometry and texts readable "above" the hatches - preset the HPDRAWORDER variable to 1. It applies to subsequent commands HATCH and -HATCH. The default setting is 3 - "put hatch below the boundary".
The draworder of existing hatchures can be changed with the DRAWORDER command, or automatically (by object type) - with the Xanadu DOBT utility.