Another hatch pattern challenge

[chick.biker]

I went to a great deal of effort a few years ago to find hatch patterns to use for various types of aggregate base material in construction details.  They are still on my machine in the appropriate search path - somehow magically AutoCAD LT 2019 seems to have found them and duplicated them in the right folder when I updated.

HOWEVER, they are not available in AutoCAD LT 2019, apparently.  In the attached screenshot of the support file directory, they are the files called HSHP11EO.pat through HSHP41EO.pat.  Can you advise?

[hugha · Accepted solution]

For reasons probably lost to antiquity, Adesk has always insisted that ACAD hatch patterns that not stored within the standard pattern files ACAD.PAT, ACADISO.PAT, ACLT.PAT etc be instead stored, one pattern per file, in text files named to match the pattern they contain with file extension .PAT so  for instance the pattern XXX should reside, alone, within a file XXX.PAT located in a directory that is a member of the Support File Search Path.

Open each of those files with a text editor and look for a line commencing with an asterisk such as

*pattername, description

Save its content as file patternname.PAT

Ensure their containing directory lies on the Support File Search Path.

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Then look for those patterns on the Hatch widget's CUSTOM tab.

hth,

Hugh Adamson

www.hatchkit.com.au

[chick.biker]

But they DO, and my program won't find them.  Did you look at the screen shot?

[chick.biker · Accepted solution]

Apologies. They were in the Custom tab.