Hatch pattern scaling

[haroldT2HCV]

Hello

When using hatch patterns the scale is very large (1000, 2000 etc) to obatin a suitable scale

In the past scales have been considerably lass than this (10 - 100)

Tried to draw concrete hatch pattern and only achieved a solid hatch regardless of scale

This has happened previously on other hatch patterns

Your suggestions would be most appreciated

Harold

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

Which template are you using metric or imperial and what is the size of the area you are trying to hatch?

If you look at the hatch pattern file then for 'ar-conc' the pattern will produce gravel at about 1" or 25mm depending on your template and your drawing units. But AutoCAD does use 'units' so in imperial the gravel is 1 unit and in metric 25 units (at a scale of 1).

So what is the approximate width of the area you are hatching and which template are you using?

[h_s_walker · Accepted solution]

Also are you using an annotative hatch? If so you need to make the scale (ringed in the image below) the same scale which you want your hatch to be

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Post your DWG file, lets see what you did for ourselves, thanks.

[haroldT2HCV]

Hi Steven



Thank you for your prompt reply

I am using metric and the size of the areas varies - 900 x 400mm; 3000 x 150mm...and so on



Since posting this query I hatched a larger size (4000 x 3000mm) which worked perfectly and then "matched properties" from the larger to the smaller areas and everything worked

It's a mystery as to why it did this in the first place but the outcome is fine and if it happens again then I'll just use the same method

Thank you for your time



Harold Stuetz



Which template are you using metric or imperial and what is the size of the area you are trying to hatch?

If you look at the hatch pattern file then for 'ar-conc' the pattern will produce gravel at about 1" or 25mm depending on your template and your drawing units. But AutoCAD does use 'units' so in imperial the gravel is 1 unit and in metric 25 units (at a scale of 1).

So what is the approximate width of the area you are hatching and which template are you using?

[haroldT2HCV]

Hello hwalker



I'll give that a go.....



Many thanks



Harold Stuetz





Also are you using an annotative hatch? If so you need to make the scale (ringed in the image below) the same scale which you want your hatch to be

[haroldT2HCV]

Hi pendean



Here's the file...



Since posting this query I hatched a larger size (4000 x 3000mm) which worked perfectly and then "matched properties" from the larger to the smaller areas and everything worked

It's a mystery as to why it did this in the first place but the outcome is fine and if it happens again then I'll just use the same method

Thank you for your time



Many thanks



Harold stuetz





Post your DWG file, lets see what you did for ourselves, thanks.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

So you just lost track of scaling then in the first try, it got fixed (or reset) in the second attempt: you control all of that in HATCH command's SETTINGS option.

[haroldT2HCV]

Hi Pendean
Sounds like we have solved the problem
Many thanks
Harold