Скачать или смотреть SmartHatch in gCADPlus – How to Prevent Crashes and Improve Auto-Hatching Results

This video responds to a viewer’s enquiry about issues with the SmartHatch tool in gCADPlus.

Our viewer wrote:

“We’ve been using gCADPlus for a few years now and love the results. However, the auto-hatching (pick a point) feature doesn’t always work for us. It performs well on smaller areas, but when we try it on larger landscape designs or drawings with many curves, the program sometimes crashes, and we lose unsaved work.”

In this tutorial, we explain how the SmartHatch tool functions — radiating out from a nominated point to detect boundaries and create closed polylines — and why it can occasionally fail when surrounded by complex geometry, such as exploded hatch patterns.

We also demonstrate several practical tips to avoid crashes and keep your workflow smooth, including:
Separating crowding entities using layers
Simplifying boundaries before hatching
Avoiding exploded hatch entities
Saving your work before applying SmartHatch

Whether you’re new to gCADPlus or an experienced user, these insights will help you use SmartHatch with confidence and produce clean, professional hatching in your landscape design drawings.