Topic: Area of Hatch

[M-dub]

This might sound like a newbie question, but I've never needed this before...

Is there a way to find out what the area that a hatch covers is?  I have a bunch of closed polylines with islands inside that are not included in the hatch.  I was hoping not to have to calculate the area of each of the islands and subtract them from the main hatched area.

Does that make sense?

[mjfarrell]

LIST it:

Command: li LIST
Select objects: l
1 found

Select objects:

                  HATCH     Layer: "ORIZONT - 0.5"
                            Space: Model space
                   Color: 1 (red)    Linetype: "BYLAYER"
Linetype scaling =       100
                   Handle = 4ac0
                 Hatch pattern SOLID
                 Associative
                 Area      733368
                 Origin    X=        0  Y=        0  Z=        0

[M-dub]

I knew it... (If only we had 2008 installed...)

That's the first thing I tried and this is all I get.  Boo Hoo....

Command: li LIST 1 found

                  HATCH     Layer: "WEEDS_STERILIZE"
                            Space: Model space
                   Handle = 231A3
                 Hatch pattern ANSI31
                 Hatch scale    5.0000
                 Hatch angle 0d0'0"
                 Associative

[M-dub]

This gem will help me out a bit for now.  I'll try to modify it tomorrow.

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=8595.0

[Krushert]

 

**Edit**
It returns a value of just the hatch (meaning it subtracts the islands/holes from the whole). 
what is also great is that will sum the areas of the hatches selected.

[Bryco]

There is also the clunky area command where you add and subtract areas