Possible Hatches
Anything that the express tool Superhatch can help with?
Christopher T. Cowgill, P.E.
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What you want to do would be clearer to me in a drawing that shows a closed area of some kind that the proposed Hatch pattern(s) should fill. Hatch patterns repeat in both directions -- would you want something that can make parallel rows of those shapes *, but that you would use only in narrow linear areas so that only one row appears?
In any case, a Hatch pattern cannot have the multiple colors in your drawing, nor be on multiple Layers, nor can it do the solid fill in your peachy-colored dots in the middles, so if you need those aspects, Blocks are the way to go.
You could conceivably get close with a Linetype incorporating Shapes, rather than a Hatch pattern, but again, it would need to be monochrome, and couldn't include true solid filling.
I suspect there's no better option than ARRAYPATH as you've used, with careful control of the path length, or the Measure method instead of the Divide method, if you want accurate spacings. With either Hatch patterns or Linetypes you would need to write a separate definition for every line of stuff in your drawing.
* in other words, the white parts here could be a Hatch pattern [though not a simple one to define]:
@gottfriedjoseph01 wrote:
.... I also have floor trusses shown in green would this possible for floor trusses? ....
On the floor trusses part, would a simple modification of the ANSI32 pattern work for you? It's pairs of parallel lines, separated pair-to-pair by a greater distance than the separation within a pair. Your specific spacings can be built in, presumably at real size so you can use a Hatch scale of 1, and presumably at a native orientation of 0° [or maybe 90°] rather than ANSI32's 45° direction.
[But it won't cap the ends as in your drawing, as part of the Hatch pattern definition.]
If done as Hatch patterns, you would need a separate pattern definition for each combination of member width and spacing. But that's not difficult -- two lines each:
0, 0,0, 0,spacing
0, 0,memberwidth, 0,spacing
Use decimal numbers [no fractions]. I leave it to you to decide what to call them. When used at zero rotation, the lines will be horizontal, and the pattern origin will be on the lower edge line of a joist/beam pair. Use at a Hatch scale of 1.
You could add the pen-down-pen-up sequence to the ends of the code lines, or just use them as defined without dashes/gaps, but on a Layer with the desired linetype, and have the HPLINETYPE System Variable turned ON.
[An AutoLisp routine could even be made that would ask you for the member width and spacing, and create the definition for you. But assuming typical construction, the possibilities are limited, so it's probably not worth building such a routine.]
EDIT: There would be [very limited] possibilities to use the same pattern in more than one situation. The ratio between member width and spacing would need to be the same. For example, a pattern defined for 1-3/4"-wide members at 12" C-C spacing could also be used, at a Hatch scale of 2, for 3-1/2"-wide members at 24" C-C.
