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Thanks Husky, This tool was drawn only with QCAD. One thing I am finding with the offsetting feature now with more time and use, is that it will overlap in certain conditions. These overlaps are so small it is difficult to see. So I just pay attention to that more. Also sometimes the precision is so...

I just found this post during a search and thanks to Andrew, this is a more stable way to do hatch in QCAD. https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5354&p=19913&hilit=snap#p19915 Quick fix: - Delete all fills - Select all outlines of the letters - Draw > Polyline > Create from Selected Ent...

The drawing is still misbehaving. If anyone has insights please do tell. For now I am re-drawing this particular tool.

Thanks Andrew. Coming from an extensive CAM background 20 years, I have checked that thoroughly. No open profiles are duplicate entities. I also verified this within QCAD and checked for duplicate and zero length entities. I also know your software points out and highlights a non closed area along w...

Update 2: I installed the latest update (3.21.3)to see if that would resolve it on the existing file. I again encountered the same problem. Doesn't work on the file, but importing into a new File works. Then I went to save it, and I get a message stating I do not have permission to save into my own ...

I don't know why, but the file is somehow corrupt. If I start a new file and then import the drawing in, now it is working. I am not marking this solved until someone can review my first post and come up with a better explanation.

I am drawing part drawings for tooling and the Hatch feature has been working perfectly fine for the most part. The most part means, it only works on certain libraries, even though the ones it doesn't work with are select-able in the context menu. Either way, I had setup a great workaround by choosi...