Custom hatch pattern does not work
Help for 2023 still says this:
Most lines in that pattern definition exceed that, unless perhaps spaces within a line don't count against the 80 characters. Maybe by more recent versions that limitation has been increased [but not updated in Help], but was still in effect in 2007. Though why it says the problem is on line 5, I couldn't say, nor whether "line 5" means the 5th line in the file, or the 5th "operational" line [omitting the commented-out ones], or the 5th line of the actual definition [also omitting the pattern-name header line].
But in case that's the issue, try taking out the spaces first, and if the problem persists, try reducing the number of decimal places in some of the numbers. If you can get it down to where all lines are unambiguously less than 80 characters long, and it still doesn't work, I don't know what else to suggest, but write back anyway.
@karenMV87H wrote:
.... I'm unable to apply the pattern
Be aware that:
1) If it's in a .pat file of its own, the file name and the pattern name defined in it must match exactly; and
2) The file needs to end with a blank line, not with the last line of pattern definition code.
If you ensure those things, does it work?
@karenMV87H wrote:
you are probably right, but I have no idea have to reduce the numbers. It's just so complicated!
You can start by taking all numbers with 9 decimal places and lopping off the last 2 from all of them. [It may not make a noticeable difference, but if you want, you could round them "properly," e.g. turn something like -21.125247175 into -21.1252472 rather than just chopping off the 75.] Along with eliminating spaces within code lines, I expect that will make all lines short enough, if the problem is in fact the number of characters in a line.
If I set the origin to the middle of the Hatch, it looks about right near that origin, but it pretty quickly diverges. So something is off, probably about the pen-down/pen-up numbers. But I do find it peculiar that, in both your original and @hugha 's HatchKit simplification, the line sets that look parallel in the result are not really at the same angles [except the vertical ones]. How critical is the exact sizing of things?
Have you tried eliminating the spaces and reducing the number of decimal places in the original one? For me, that doesn't have the same displacement issue as you get farther from the origin that the shortened definition suffers from, so if it's only a number-of-characters issue, reducing in that way should fix it.
@Kent1Cooper wrote:
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Have you tried eliminating the spaces and reducing the number of decimal places in the original one? .....
Yes, it should be definable in just 6 lines, but I found that [without having to think about it deeply], just quickly removing all the spaces gets all lines below 80 characters. Does the attached work?
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