Creating an Array with no spacing between objects

[Anonymous]

How do I create an array that has no spacing between the objects in the Array? I am trying to create a pedal stool flooring system on  plan so I created a block of the square pedastool with joist and I want to create an array around it to create the grid on the floor and it needs to interlock to create the grid on the floor. Any suggestions? 

[Anonymous]

You can select the distance horizontal and vertical for spacing, just use the main object for your spacing.

[Kent1Cooper]

Can you post an image?  If it's an Array of squares, wouldn't a User-defined Hatch pattern with the double-direction option, or one of the grid-type Hatch patterns like ANSI37, do the job?

[I think you mean pedestal.]

[Anonymous]

Using a hatch pattern does not give you nodes to snap to if needed.

[pendean]

You can snap to hatch nodes: look up OSOPTIONS command in HELP.
Let us know your exact AutoCAD version as listed in ABOUT command if you post back.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip. Learn something new everyday. Osoptions has to be set to 0.

[Anonymous]

So I was going to create an array horizontally and one verticle to attach to that sqaure and just not include the square pieces on the left and bottom. They need to attach to the previous square to represent the grid system created by the pedestals and joints. I hope that clears it up. I am also not amazing at Cad so I may just not have understood peoples feedback well sorry.  

[Anonymous]

I am using the 2018 version. Do I have to create a user-defined hatch pattern before I would snap to the hatch nodes? Sorry I am not very experienced with cad, so the more explanatory the better. Thank you! 

[Kent1Cooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

So I was going to create an array ... to attach to that sqaure and just not include the square pieces on the left and bottom. ....  

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Would it matter if the square pieces occur on all four corners of all [presumably] Blocks?  They would overlap each other, but wouldn't make any difference to plotted output, etc.  Then you wouldn't need to make different versions.

[Kent1Cooper]

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@pendean wrote:
You can snap to hatch nodes:....

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That depends on what the OP meant by "nodes."  With the option set for it, you can Osnap to ENDpoints and INTersectioins and MIDpoints in Hatch patterns, and PERpendicular to elements of them, and some other things, but if they mean "nodes" in the sense of what NODe Object Snap means, that's POINT entities, which Hatch patterns cannot contain.  But Blocks can, or [inefficient, but still] they could be independent drawing pieces that are part of what is Arrayed.

[EDIT:  Now I notice that the OP was not the one who called attention to the Osnap-to-Hatch issue.  @Anonymous , does that matter to you?  If not for the fact that the connecting bars don't extend from the pedestal posts in the outward direction on the perimeter pedestals, the whole thing could be done as a Hatch pattern.  You would need to be careful about defining the perimeter, but it would be a simplification.  But you would need to be able to live with the "stubs" of connecting bars that don't extend to anything at the perimeter.  Somewhat simplified, but your system could be defined into a Hatch pattern along these lines:

the red-ringed bits show a couple of the connecting bar "stubs."]

[parkr4st]

2 thoughts.  go online.  manufacturers have dwg files available

put the intersection in the center of the cross lines as in the attached dwg

dave