Topic: Anyone know of hatch tools that will work for this?

[nobody]

someone thoughtlessly put a thousand verts in a file (exploded a spline) and hatched them.   I need to clean that file up. Anyone have a tool for that already (something that will weed out unnecessary points from a hatch)?   I know I can regenerate boundaries, weed them manually, then rehatch everything...hoping someone will have a tool that will spare me the effort.

[CAB]

Create a sample of the problem in a new DWG file & post it.
Someone may create a new tool for you or have a method that works.

[nobody]

Good idea CAB...thanks!

[ribarm]

I thought you would write inside DWG what do you want to do with those SOLID hatches... So what are you looking for - recreating boundaries...

[ymg]

Alien,

As Marko stated your intent is not clear.

If it is reducing the number of vertices, there is
polyline-diet by Kent Cooper
on the the Cadalyst site.

You'll still need to recreates the boundaries with hatchedit.

On your sample drawing, with a setting of 3.0 as max distance
and 15 for max angle, poly was reduced from 504 segments
to 52 segments.

 Original:  Area = 297.7410, Perimeter = 100.7526
Reduced:  Area = 297.1917, Perimeter = 100.4503

To rebuild the spline, you would need a spline-curve fitter
David Eberly has a paper and some C source code to do this,
 you can find it at:
         Paper    http://www.geometrictools.com/Documentation/BSplineCurveLeastSquaresFit.pdf
         Code    http://www.geometrictools.com/GTEngine/Include/Mathematics/GteBSplineCurveFit.h

ymg

[MP]

(couldn't resist)

[ymg]

MP,

I guess it the middle ground between Extrovert and Introvert. 

[nobody]

Hey all. Hopefully this clears it up.

Through code, is there a way to reduce the number of verticies that make up a solid hatch?  There are far too many in the hatches in the drawing.

I'd prefer to skip regenerating hatch boundaries, weeding, and rehatching if at all possible.