Add hatch from within DWG file

[pedro_suescun]

I have a DWG file with multiple custom hatches, I select any and it opens the hatch palette, I can select the hatch and add vertex to give it any shape and it follows, but the hatch itself is not added to the AutoCAD hatch menus, I can't pick point and fill a square with this custom hatch, is there a simple way like "right click add hatch" (yeah I know AutoCAD doesn't have this) that I'm missing to add hatches from within the DWG file without doing a 10+ steps process and be able to use them normally?

[imadHabash]

Hi,

>> is there a simple way like "right click add hatch"

It's already there by selecting ADDSELECTED  command , click on below image . 

[pedro_suescun]

Thank you but that doesn't work because the Hatch has to be in AutoCAD's library and the ones I mean are not in the library just in the DWG file, they work fine (except that I can't use them like a normal hatch in the hatch menu) and I have found some very complicated tutorials to add them to library but was wondering if there is an easy way, is a working hatch should be easy to add to the library.

[vladimir_michl · Accepted solution]

You can extract pattern definitions from your DWG file to .PAT files with PatOut and then place the .PAT files to your AutoCAD support folder. See CAD Forum - Extract hatch patterns to PAT files - copy hatches between DWGs.

Vladimir Michl, www.arkance-systems.cz - www.cadforum.cz