Converting hatch into arcs and lines

[atulono]

I receive 2D autocad files with hatched figures, but I need to obtain its shapes to work with them. I need to extract polylines or lines and arcs from the boundaries of these hatchs.

Can anybody help me explaining how to do this job?

Thank you.

[architech]

Have you tried the "burst" command?

If so, and "no good", what exporting the file as a DXB?

This requires you creating a printer to plot to a DXB.

Hope that helps. 8)

[atulono]

I'm using autocad 2002 and it don't have the burst command, at least it's what it says when I write burst in the command line. The most similar command I found is the 'explode' command but it says it cant explode hatch.

I have tried to plot the file as a dbx, but now the problem is that I get a drawing with the boundaries of the hatches, but the interior is filled with a lot of lines and its very difficult to delete these lines without removing any of the boundary lines.

Any solution?

Thank you for your help.

[architech]

Hmmmm.... sounds like you don't have the "Express" tools ....
I'm attaching the burst.lsp ... hope you know how to load it...
Just type "appload" and browse to the burst.lsp file.
Then type "burst".

Anyway ....
Sorry the DXB didn't give the result you want.

But I'm wondering about the "explode" command.
Why wouldn't this work, too?
If anything the exploded should break up the hatch and boundary into 2 layers.
1 layer for the hatch. And the other for the boundary.
Then it would be a simple ... display off the hatch layer.
And leave the "boundary" layer on ... to achieve your goal. :)

let me know if I'm missing something here.... :?: