Good morning,
I am trying to set up a custom hatch pattern of a rather detailed granite stonework that we use quite commonly in the practice.
I thought I alsmost had it, but sadly when I try to apply the hatch it just comes out as solid. AutoCad attempts to "automatically adjust the hatch scale", but sadly this does nothing.
We are using AutoCad LT 2012 and I have attached the custom hatch pattern. Does anyone have any suggestions / solutions?
Kind Regards.
Hi 3Wood,
Yea, I bumped it up to the maximum scale possible (and minimum just in case) and it still comes out as a solid hatch sadly.
Hi Pendean,
Sorry, when I say "increasing it to the maximum scale", I just meant using the "hatch edit" command. Basically, I would assume that it comes out as a solid hatch because the hatch was at too small of a scale, but even increasing the scale to "99999999" has the same solid outcome.
Hi Pendean,
I've attached a simple file, just a rectangle with the granite wall hatch applied to it. I have left the scale at "1000". No matter what the scale is though, it always comes out solid.
Just in case it comes out differently on your screen, I've also attached a screenshot of what I am seeing.
I also attached the actual .pat in the first post if this is required for you to view it properly.
Cheers.
Hi rkmcswain,
It's a custom hatch that I attempted to prepare myself. I have to say I've never attempted creating a hatch before and it is of a very detailed pattern. I used "DrawHatch" to create it. I only made it a couple of days ago and no luck in getting it to work on any computer sadly.
We are using AutoCAD LT 2012 in our office if that's important.
Cheers.
I agree with Dean. I'm not saying a 4MB hatch pattern is not possible, but I've never seen one so large and it's not working.
Is this the command you used?
http://www.mladengradev.com/en/create-custom-hatches-in-autocad/
Using Acad, draw a sketch of what you WANT your hatch pattern to look like.
DEAN: Wouldn't the scale command just create a larger shape which in turn would multiply the area that the hatch needs to cover (thereby causing even more of a memory issue)?
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
Hi Pendean,
I had a feeling it might have been. Any tips on simplifying hatches? Or perhaps even creating them in the first place? It's an alien subject to myself sadly, but resolving this particular hatch would be extremely beneficial to our office. We're currently copying and pasting it on to walls then having to trim / delete and excess, wasting a lot of time. Haha.
@A7Apprentice wrote:
Hi Pendean,
.....Any tips on simplifying hatches? Or perhaps even creating them in the first place?
The 'how-to' has been documented by Autodesk pretty much the same since the beginnings:
http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2014/ENU/files/GUID-A6F2E6FF-1717-44B6-A476-0CA817ADD77E.htm
You might also search around to find something that is close enough for your needs:
http://www.dotsoft.com/acadhatch.htm
http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/node/tiplisting?tid=100
As a last resort, you could also look into using the Express Tool "SuperHatch"
Hi Doni,
I created a quick dwg of the hatch that I am actually trying to create. I've attached it to this post. As you can see, it's not exactly a straight forward one, but it looks very professional when applied. The only problem is it takes hours to apply it by copying/pasting/trimming.
Thanks for the guide Swain, although I have a feeling that coding something like the attached pattern might be slightly out of my league. Haha - that's why I used this "DrawHatch" software.
Thanks for the link to the other libraries though, there are some very useful looking ones in there.
Attached is a drawing showing your pattern as used by SuperHatch.
Ahhh, that is what we're looking for! Sadly it would appear out version of Autocad doesn't have "superhatch". We're running AutoCAD LT 2012... Going to assume this is another feature not meant for LT?
Ahh, OK, sorry I missed that one. Thanks for all your help regardless. I'll take the query there and see if anyone has any further ideas!
Cheers all.