Additional Hatches

[brendaFSTVM]

Hi, is there a way to download new hatches? There used to be a wood effect hatch on older versions but I can't find one on the 2022 version. 

Is there a library of hatches I can download or buy?

[nrz13]

I'm not sure where they came from originally, but here are some wood hatches I have.  Just copy and paste the contents of the attached .txt file into your acad.pat file (Go to Options > Files tab > Support File Search Path to see where your support folder is located or just enter this at the command line:  (findfile "acad.pat").

[Kent1Cooper]

Just put something like

wood grain hatch pattern autocad

into a web search, and you'll get more sources than ....

[pendean]

There are lots on the web, help yourself anytime https://www.google.com/search?q=autocad+hatch+patterns
https://www.google.com/search?q=autocad+wood+hatch+patterns

[egjackson4]

Any way to convert the .txt files to a .pat file?

[cadffm]

Rename the file extension from .txt to .pat

(But he recommends a completely different approach.)

[Kent1Cooper]

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@egjackson4 wrote:

Any way to convert the .txt files to a .pat file?

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Any number of Hatch pattern definitions can be added into the acad.pat file as @nrz13 suggested.  But you can't just take their .txt file and change its filetype ending to .pat.  That's because custom pattern definitions not included within acad.pat must each be in their own separate file, and the file name [preceding the .pat filetype ending] of each must exactly match the name of the pattern defined in it [though not case-sensitive].  So you can save pieces of their attachment into 6 separate .pat files, or you can paste them all collectively into acad.pat.  Either way, make sure each file ends with an empty line, that is with an Enter that concludes the last line of definition code, not just at the end of that last line of code.

[egjackson4]

Thank you!