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tranchellinim
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acad.pat location

Hello all!

 

I've struggled the whole day with this and I'd like to share the result to avoid someone else to do the same...

 

I needed to add paterns to my acad.pat file. Using the procedure that is included in the hatch command gave no result. The added paterns were never added. No luck?

 

Then I wanted to edit manually the acad.pat file. I used the command which is included in the hatch command that allows to reach the acad.pat file directly. I made the change to that acad.pat file whithout any success. I did the same in the acadiso.pat file that was also there. No success.

 

Serching on the web I finally came across a command that is

(findfile "acad.pat")

That was the trick...

The file I was sent to over the Search in the Finder option in the hatch command was in the folder named:

~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/roaming/AutoCAD 2013/R19.0/fra/Support/acad.pat

 

The file that came out with the findfile command above sent me to this other folder:

/Applications/Autodesk/AutoCAD 2013/AutoCAD 2013.app/Contents/Resources/Support/acad.pat

 

The outcome of that is that I was trying to edit the wrong file...   Because AutoCAD sent me there!

 

Hope it helps someone!

At least the development team...

 

Regards

 

Michael

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maxim_k
in reply to: tranchellinim

Hi Michael,

 

You are right in your case,

BUT in my installation of AutoCAD both "Find in Finder" option in Hatch Library drop-down list and AutoLISP statement (findfile "acad.pat") return the same path: "~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/roaming/AutoCAD 2013/R19.0/enu/support/acad.pat".

And I know the case of such behavior - it is in "Support File Search Path" sequence. In my case "~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/roaming/AutoCAD 2013/R19.0/enu/support" is in first place and "/Applications/Autodesk/AutoCAD 2013/AutoCAD 2013.app/Contents/Resources/Support" on the second place:

 

Screen Shot 2012-10-01 at 19.41.58.png

 

so AutoCAD at first searches "~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/roaming/AutoCAD 2013/R19.0/enu/support" folder for support files (including acad.pat, acadiso.pat and others) and then it searches "/Applications/Autodesk/AutoCAD 2013/AutoCAD 2013.app/Contents/Resources/Support" folder.

In your case search sequence is quite opposite (don't know why).

 

Maxim


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ron0ryan1
in reply to: tranchellinim

CREATE a directory for all your new hatches, use Options, support file search path, ADD

add the new directory of hatches DONE

acad is a kluster f

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pendean
in reply to: ron0ryan1

Excellent advise!

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