Custom hatch pattern confusion

[cybhunter007]

Hi everyone,

I'm relativity new to creating custom hatch patterns. What I'm trying to do is create a pattern that is a composite of ANSI32 (steel) and horizontal lines that are spaced 1/8" between (The goal being that that for a 3/4" thick rectangle, there would be 5 visble line between the edges).

The code I'm using

*Plywood,Plywood
0,0.125,0,0,0.125
45, 0, 0, 0, 9.525 
45, 4.49013, 0, 0, 9.525 

the goal is to have something that looks like this;

What keeps on happening is this:

I'm confused. What I conceptully understand is the syntax being (angle of line), (X orgin), (Y orgin), (delta X), (delta Y) and parameter's for line attributes. What I don't understand is; if I set the delta Y for .125 (1/8"), scale factor 1, why am I not seeing horiznational lines at X=n*0.125 increments?

Thanks,

Joe

[Kent1Cooper · Accepted solution]

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@cybhunter007 wrote:

.... What I'm trying to do is create a pattern that is a composite of ANSI32 (steel) and horizontal lines that are spaced 1/8" between (The goal being that that for a 3/4" thick rectangle, there would be 5 visble line between the edges).

The code I'm using

*Plywood,Plywood
0,0.125,0,0,0.125
45, 0, 0, 0, 9.525 
45, 4.49013, 0, 0, 9.525 

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Could it be revolting against the density of the horizontal lines at that scale?  The diagonals are repeating at about 9-1/2 units apart, so to get them at the spacing in your image, it doesn't seem like you can possibly be using it at a Hatch scale of 1, and the 1/8-unit-apart horizontals would be incredibly densely packed.

Try spacings for the diagonals in a more likely relationship to the spacing of the horizontals, such as something like:

*Plywood,Plywood
0, 0,0, 0,0.125
45, 0,0, 0,2
45, 0.5,0, 0,2

You can play with the 2's at the ends of the last two lines and the 0.5 in the last line to fine-tune the look of it.

[I changed the origin point for the horizontals -- there's no point in "starting" an un-broken horizontal line to the right of the origin.]

[pendean]

if you get tried of all that, try purchasing a fix http://hatchpatterns.com/

[Sofia.Xanthopoulou]

Hi @cybhunter007,

you could also use the SUPERHATCH which is in the Express Tools.

Regards