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456 | Chapter 18 Hatches, Fills, and Wipeouts
You can also remove any islands from the hatch area.
To remove islands from the hatch area
1 From the Draw menu, choose Hatch.
2 In the Boundary Hatch and Fill dialog box, choose Pick Points.
3 Specify a point in your drawing inside the hatch area.
4 In the Boundary Hatch and Fill dialog box, choose Remove Islands.
5 Select the boundaries of areas you do not want excluded from hatching.
6 In the Boundary Hatch and Fill dialog box, choose OK to apply the hatch.
Draw toolbar
Command line
BHATCH
Define Hatch Boundaries in Large Drawings
By default, AutoCAD defines the boundary by analyzing all the closed objects
in the drawing. Analysis of all objects fully or partially visible on the screen
as boundaries can be time consuming in a complex drawing. To hatch a small
area of a complex drawing, you can define a set of objects in the drawing
called a boundary set. When you specify an internal point within the bound-
ary set, AutoCAD does not analyze objects that are not included in the
boundary set. Boundary sets are also useful for applying hatches to islands
differently in different sections of a drawing.
internal point
resultislands to remove
(solid boundaries)
boundaries detected