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Hatch Boundary Not Found

August 4, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD


How many times have you used the “pick points” option when hatching only to have it tell you “Valid Boundary Not Found”? Then you have no idea where the problem lies within your drawing. AutoCAD 2010 fixes this issue. Now it will put two red circles at the open portion of the boundary and displays a dialog box with explanations!!! No more guesswork! Thank you Autodesk!

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Get a Grip!

August 4, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

New grip options for hatch objects without boundaries.


Once a hatch is create you can modify it’s boundaries with the Remove Boundary, Recreate Boundary, or the new Select Boundary Objects tool. You can find this new option in the Boundaries Section of the Hatch Edit Dialog box.

You can use this tool to display all of the grips available in a hatch boundary as well as the centroid grip. This can be particulary helpful whe you are editing associative hatches as normally you would only get a grip at the centroid.

AutoCAD 2010 non-associative hatches will display grips at each corner, and edge grips at the midpoint of each side. This allows you to add a vertex, convert a linear edge to an arc or an arc to a linear edge as well as change the midpoint of an arc.

To add a vertex on the edge grip at the midpoint of a linear edge click on the edge grip then click it again in a new location.

To convert a linear edge to an arc, click on the edge grip and press the key. This converts the entire linear edge with an arc. You can drag the midpoint to you desired location.

You can edit the arc by clicking on the edge grip, change the location of the arc midpoint or convert it to a line.

Pretty cool stuff! Happy Grips to you!

Bob

Source: The AutoCAD Gazette – Get a Grip!
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Boundary Management in CAD

July 23, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

I have used a method of management in many areas of my career that defines not the target, but the boundary limits of a successful task or function.  When I started looking on the internet for supporting documents to what I thought was fairly commonly used, I found very little.  What I did find was [...]

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Applying Boundary Management

July 23, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

Boundary Management is a vital tool for any manager as long as it is applied correctly.  It must be used at the right time, in the right way and in the right situation.

Boundary Management as previously defined is loosely defining the target and setting up limits. It is not creating a bull’s eye, but [...]

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Creating Regions by using Boundary Command

July 22, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

Regions are two-dimensional enclosed areas that have physical properties such as centroids or centers of mass. Two or more existing regions can be combine into a single, complex region to calculate an area.

A region can be created from an bojects that form closed loops. Loops can be a combinations of lines, polylines, circles, arcs, ellipses, elliptical arcs, aand splices. Regions can be used for, applying hatch and shading. Regions can also be used in analyzing properties, such as area by using command Massprop and List. Regions can as well be used in extracting design information, such as centroid.

Boundary dialogue box

Boundary dialogue box

There are lot of ways in AutoCAD to create regions,but the easiest way I know of creating regions are by using Boundary command. This command can be found under the Draw pulldown menu. Or at the command prmopt, type Boundary or BO for shortcut. After keying-in Boundary command, a dialogue box will appear, just click the Region or Polyline on Object type, then click Pick points, and the n select the internal point you want to be created as region.

Selected Boundary

Selected Boundary

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