Can you 'ungroup' hatches to make polylines out of them?

[hollister design Studio]

For some reason my Nvidia quadro rtx 3000 card can't seem to handle vectorworks hatches...

 

Simple hatches are fine - but anything like paving stones or other complicated hatching make my GPU fan go crazy and make any navigation a stutter jumping mess.

 

Counter intuitively, if I just draw paving stones as polygons everything is fine - but this does take a bit of time in drawing and updating.

 

Is there a way to use the quick creation that hatches affords but to break them apart and turn them into some sort of geometry so my graphics card doesn't burn up!

[markdd]

Sort of.....

 

You can use the old Hatch command from the modify menu which will create a Hatch group that you can then Ungroup to get to the individual elements.