topic Re: Annotative hatches in Tool Pallet in AutoCAD Forum

Annotative hatches in Tool Pallet

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:57:58 GMT

Hello everyone,

I recently tried the annotative hatches in Autocad 2018. The main principle of these hatches are not to difficult to understand. But here is my problem / question for you:

I'd like to add these hatches to the tool pallet with the preset annotative scales. But when I drag a new hatch to the tool pallet these preset scales dissapear. Is there an other way to add these hatches with the annotative scales to the tool pallet?

Re: Annotative hatches in Tool Pallet

vinodkl — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:06:22 GMT

Hi,

Welcome to Autodesk AutoCAD Forum.

There is no need to add predefined annotation scale. Set the required scale on the drawing say 1/8"=1'0" and then drag the hatch from the toolpalette into the drawing that's it. But make sure you have set the system variable HPANNOTATIVE TO "1" which would add annotation to the hatch according the scale set in the drawing.

BTW how did you add the HATCH into the toolpalette?

Re: Annotative hatches in Tool Pallet

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:13:49 GMT

Hi vinodkl,

Thanks for the reply.

Hatches can be added to the toolpallet by dragging them from the modelspace into the toolpallet. There you can change all the settings of the hatch. Works perfect for me exept that the "loading time" is an issue.

For the annotative bit..... When the hatch is inserted in the model with a certain scale do I need to do that with all the seperate hatches? And what will happen when the viewport is changed to a different scale?

I would like to have standard hatches for 4 or 5 different scales so that I don't have to worry about the fact if the hatch is shown on the layout or not....

Re: Annotative hatches in Tool Pallet

vinodkl — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:38:21 GMT

>>Hatches can be added to the toolpallet by dragging them from the modelspace into the toolpallet. There you can change all the settings of the hatch. Works perfect for me exept that the "loading time" is an issue<<

I don't have any issue with the loading at my end.

>>For the annotative bit..... When the hatch is inserted in the model with a certain scale do I need to do that with all the seperate hatches? And what will happen when the viewport is changed to a different scale?<<

Yes you have different scale and then add the separate hatch, but then you need to turn off the ANNOAUTOSCALE so that earlier applied hatch doesn't change the scale. When viewport scale is changed it would not affect the hatch since the ANNOAUTOSCALE is turned off.

>>I would like to have standard hatches for 4 or 5 different scales so that I don't have to worry about the fact if the hatch is shown on the layout or not....<<

If you want hatch with different scale then you can make multiple copy of the Hatch in the toolpalette and then set different scale for the hatch from the properties in the toolpalette, which I feel to be viable solution for your problem rather making the hatch annotative, which would make the work cumbersome.