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In this session we shall focus on associative hatch option. Well, have you any time used the associative hatch option before hatching your objects or entities. Then its time to see this options now.

AutoCAD 2008, has an option of creating associative hatches - An associative hatch is dynamically updated as and when you change the boundary of the drawing. Hatched areas are generally associative when the option is used. To understand this better, let's consider an example. Create a rectangle of arbitrary sides as shown below

Rectangle

Now Select the Hatch command and click on Add: Pick Point followed by scale [20] and Associative Option and later click within the rectangle

Hatch Option

Hatched Rectangle:

Hatched Rectangle

Now using the Grips, try to change the orientation of the rectangle, by using the grips, we notice that hatch also belcomes associative.

Stretched Rectangle

Final Rectangle

The above settings are stored in an SYSTEM VARIABLE : HPASSOC

However you can remove these settings or create an NON ASSOCIATIVE HATCH PATTERN when the HPGAPTOL system varilable is set to 0 (by default)

When the hatch is not associative, the figure changes as shown below

Hatch not associative

See you soon, with another interesting command on AutoCAD 2008,

Thanks

Sunith Babu. L

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AutoCAD 2008 Drawing Recovery Command

nobody@vox.com(Sunith Babu) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:41:39 +0530

Have you any time lost your valuable items, wallet. What about the most important data deleted from computer during a system crash, you might have immediately tried to use a data recovery manager to recover the best you can.

But what about a CAD file ? I bet you don't what such things happen.

But wait, may be if there is a way to recover, apart from DATA recovery softwares, Yes got it right.

In AutoCAD there is a command which most of them don't use, but this is the only command you better use in case of system crash or trying to retrieving your backup files.

Command: Drawing Recovery Manager,

Click File menu > Drawing Utilities > Drawing Recovery Manager

Command prompt: DRAWINGRECOVERY

This tool automatically opens next time you open AutoCAD, further it displays a list of drawing files that were opened during a failure. Sounds interesting.

See Images below to have a better Idea,

AutoCAD Recovery

AutoCAD Recovery method

See you soon with some more commands . . .

Sunith Babu. L

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