You can do this by following these simple steps:ġ.In your AutoCAD document, draw a desired pattern using a tool from the Draw panel.Ģ. Now, although AutoCAD offers plenty of hatch patterns on its own, sometimes we may want to personalize our drawings and implement our own hatch patterns. So getting the hatch patterns just as accurate as the drawings themselves is important. These hatches represent the real material to be used. This poses an interesting situation when AutoCAD users need to fill in the hatches of their drawings. And because AutoCAD designs can be intended for any structure under the sun, the material being used or involved in the design’s construction can vary greatly. One of the great things about AutoCAD is that it can be used to design drawings meant for different types of industries. The appropriate hatch pattern file, the HATCH command will beĬalled and the chosen pattern will be loaded and ready to use.Part 5 of 13 in our How To Use AutoCAD series
That pattern file is in the directory specified. The search doesn’t find that pattern file. On the Hatch Pattern Files tab, in the Search for the If known, change the directory to the specific location
Multi-lined code become difficult and confusing.īox, click the drop down arrow of the Look For box. Of code, the pattern should be loaded and checked to make sure that it is The file extension for hatch pattern is xx.pat The file name must have the same as the pattern name. All fields are comma delimited and terminatedĮach pattern is created in its own file. There is a maximum of six string definitions per line.
The subsequent lines define the hatch pattern with the format of:Īngle, X- orgin, Y- orgin, delta-X, delta-Y, Ĭonsists of varying length dashes denoted by positive numbers, spaces denotedīy negative numbers and dots denoted by “0”’s. All patterns start at the point 0 ,0, the pattern is calculated out to cover the hatchingĬan have no spaces, punctuation marks, parenthesis, or slashes. This file may be edited to add hatch patterns, supplemented, or replaced. File contains the predefined hatching patterns used by AutoCAD.
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