CAD tip # 7916:

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Searching for hatches with missing Area property.

AutoCAD drawings may contain hatches which - mostly due to the loss of associativity - do not have the "Area" property and so you cannot use them to summarize the total area. For area calculations you will need to fix them first - reconstruct their boundary curve and re-create the hatch.

To identify such complaining hatches, we made a LISP utility SelHatch0 - it selects all hatches that do not contain the property Area - so e.g. the Properties windows doesn't display the area of such hatch object.

You can download the SelHatch0 utility from www.cadstudio.cz/download, laod it with APPLOAD and run it with the command SELHATCH0. The complaining hatches will be pre-selected for editing.

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See also:
Tip 12633:	Sol2SolH - convert DWG objects of the type Solid to Hatches
Tip 12429:	HatchOverlap - check for any overlapping hatches in a DWG
Tip 12287:	AutoCAD hatch flood-fill does not honor all boundaries.
Tip 12129:	Atypical use of meshing for tiling a closed shape.
Tip 12105:	Select the smallest DWG object - MinOf utility.

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