How do I move a hatch from Autocad 2014 to Autocad 2019?

[Anonymous]

I have an old hatch file that I downloaded years ago and have been using in my Autocad 2014.  I had to replace the old computer so I had to load Autocad from scratch and am now using 2019.  I don't know how to get the old hatch file into the new program.  I have drawing files with the hatch in it, but don't know how to save it to the existing hatch profiles.

[Patchy]

Use this:

http://www.turvill.com/t2/free_stuff/getpat.lsp

[pendean]

Place that hatch file's source folder in the AutoCAD 2019 Search path, restart AutoCAD2019, and you can use it the same exact way you did in 2014

 

Or did you forget/not get a chance to grab or back them up when you had 2014 running? You need the source code, this LISP can help you extract it from existing files if that is all you have now https://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/extract-hatch-patterns-to-pat-files-copy-hatches-between-dwgs-ti... and https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-lt-forum/save-hatch-pattern-from-drawing-as-pat-file/m-p/8159...

[Kent1Cooper]

If it's a separate file of its own with a .pat filetype ending, just put that file into any folder location that's listed in the OPTIONS command / Files tab / Support File Search Path list.  If it was a definition that you added into  the ACAD.pat file, copy the defining code from the older one and paste it into the current version of that.  If it's at the end of that file, make sure the file ends with an empty line, not with the last line of code content [hard return at the end of that line if necessary].