WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, make an image elsewhere and add it to your AutoCAD DWG by either a PDF underlay or inserting an image such as a TIFF file.This would work in a situation such as having several areas already hatched and an outlined area in between them that's having difficulty hatching. Hatch a simple shape, such as a square, then right click to select draw order -> send to back, and place under the outlined area. Use an external program such as Canvas that can handle DWG images to do the hatching part. Make sure the HATCH scale is not extremely large or extremely small.After you are done, of course, delete the lines or put them on a non-plotting layer. When hatching huge areas, I find it faster to make several hatches to fill the space.
You can either hatch one segment, then use HATCHEDIT to add more areas to your hatch, or make separate hatches. Draw a couple of lines through the area to be hatched and hatch it by segments.Click on the joined object, pull up the properties pop-up (PROP command), look near the bottom of the pop-up, and you'll see an option "closed". Check that "joined" lines are truly joined in a closed shape.This will avoid potential "leaks". If you don't want the lines or plines joined together forever, cut and paste into a separate DWG first. If you have a lot of plines or lines touching each other, use the JOIN command to make them into one unbroken piece.Use BPoly to turn separate plines into solid boundaries.Then hatch, copy the hatch, and again paste to original coordinates.
PURGE to get rid of unnecessary stuff that may have come in with it. Right click and select Clipboard -> paste to original coordinates.
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An even bigger mystery is how to explain to your non-CAD coworkers why it took all afternoon to color a map. Among the mysteries of the universe is why a program that can build a scale 3-D model of the solar system cannot seamlessly perform some of the same functions that my Super Nintendo did in Mario Paint. Can't get AutoCAD to hatch an area? As frequently as this happens, I could have just titled this article "Using Hatch in AutoCAD".