Archive for March, 2008

Hatch Island Detection is incorrect when hatching around MTEXT entities

By admin - Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Under certain circumstances, the hatch command’s island detection feature does not work when mtext entities are contained within the area to be hatched.
Steps to reproduce:
   1. Create two mtext objects with this text (include a return after each word):  test centered text
   2. Set the width on both mtext objects to 0.
   3. Change the [...]

Bhatch does not find a hatch boundary

By admin - Last updated: Friday, March 7, 2008

Ever since bhatch was introduced in R13, it has had trouble finding the boundary of many areas which are bound by arcs or polylines with arcs.  This bug seems to be more troublesome the farther the linework is away from the UCS origin.  It appears to be worse still when the linework is far from the WCS origin (such as [...]

Spline option in PEDIT command doesn’t work after join has been executed

By admin - Last updated: Wednesday, March 5, 2008

After joining lines or polylines within the PEDIT command, the SPLINE option can’t be run until the command is ended and reexecuted.
Steps to reproduce:

Draw three lines which meet end to end
Enter PEDIT (if peditaccept is turned off, hit “y”)
Select J to join the segments
Select S to spline the resulting polyline
Notice that the command is exited

 
Workarounds: Exit [...]