If you do "Hatch Area" and it is disabled "Associative Boundary" then it creates a new Shape on your Shape. (by Flood).
How can then find hatches in your drawing if the element is a generic Shape?. Does it have that Shape a particular property to find them?
In the case of "Associative Boundary" enabled it creates "Associative Region" so I can find them by that type of object.
In the case of AutoCAD, it does not mind if you creates a hatch with Association or not because it always create a "Hatch" object. So if you do a query or find hatches (associated or not) you just find by "Hatch" object.
Please let all know the Product / Version being used as mentioned in Best Practices
Perhaps you could use the Explorer's Advanced Search to search for 'Shapes' and pick up a Hatch property.
For Example: Search for all Shapes, that have a Hatch where its Color is not specified
Answer Verified By: Joan Martínez Serra
Excellent Carl.
It works fine.
MS CE U16.