Expert: Paul Jordan - 10/11/2008

Question
I use architectural ticks for dimensioning.  Sometimes when plotting the ticks plot unfilled.  You see a open rectangle instead of solid line.  Everything looks fine on the screen.  What command or variable setting is required to have the ticks plot correctly?

Answer
Usually the Architectural Ticks are actually 2 lines side by side.  Do you have one that's a pline??

If they're two lines, it could be that you have a different color assigned to them.

Here's something to try...  Use an HVL style off font and just put some garbage text on a file that's not filling in the tick marks and see if the hvl font fills.  Make sure it's not an outline font.  

I believe the setvar is fillmode.

Let me know if that works or not.  

Paul