Im an experienced autocad user but this is my first attempt at a hatch pattern and im not having any luck. Ive tried to creat this .pat but it just comes through as ansi 31. If someone could please step me through the process I would be very thankfull.
I could use some help, also, in creating a hatch pattern. The "recipie" is great if I knew what to do with it. No where have I seen "UTF-8" mentioned. I was hoping to use SUPERHATCH, but it only stacks the brick, whereas I need a running bond. Our whole Office does not have an Express Tools Help that works. Our AutoCAD supplier has not been of help on getting it to work. As asked by a previous posting, a step-by-step would be helpful. Read Y'all Later -KLYPH
I've been using AutoCAD since Release-9. Your reply was the least useful I've read in the last 25 years. Before posting my question, I had searched the Internet and found no AutoCAD patterns for any bricks. I did find a lot of King Size Beds and King Size Clothing. I notice that the Posting that started all of this was from 10 years ago. Although it is important to know how to use AutoCAD to its fullest, there are many times a Project Deadline looms and the Bosses don't understand our surfing AutoCAD HELP. Sometines we just need an answer. Right now, our only solution is to Array a KIng Size Brick. That is VERY bad and includes a lot of Trimming. I'm not upset at your reply, just running out of time. Read Ya Later -KLYPH
I dont understand why autodesk doesnt release a bunch of new hatches. Why are we stuck with the same old hatches from 20 years ago? Why dont we have some standard wood grains, and stone patterns, BATT insulation, KING size brick, and CMU etc...
If anyone can please direct me to where I can download these hatches for free I would be most appreciative.
Thanks,
Welcome to the Discussion Groups.
Are you using AutoCAD, or AutoCAD Architecture (a vertical product based on AutoCAD, with additional features, such as architecture-specific objects like Walls, Doors and Windows)? The latter does ship with a large number of additional hatch patterns, including 39 brick patterns, some with single lines between bricks, and some with double lines (to show the mortar joint). Most of these are for modular brick, so the Orginal Poster might still be in need of a custom pattern for King Size brick hatch. Starting with one of these, as Dean suggested, along with understanding how hatches are defined, should make creating a custom hatch with different brick dimensions easier. But if you only have AutoCAD....
A Google search on "AutoCAD brick hatch" turned up a number of sites offering free hatch patterns. Perhaps one of those has a King Size brick pattern that would be useable.
I'm getting closer. I created a Pattern File using:
*Brick_Running-King, Brick: King-Size - Running bond
0, 0,0, 0,3
90, 0,0, 3,5, 3,-3
BUT, I get a message: "Error in Pattern File".
What am I missing?
Read Y'all Later -KLYPH
I never did solve that Pattern problem.
I do have the attached brick lisp.
It works.
I would post it, but I keep getting the message "The file type doesn't match the type of its contents"
Your pattern worked just fine for me. Did you put it into the acad.pat file, or did you do it as a stand-alone PAT file. If the latter, the file name needs to match the pattern name, and you also want to make certain that you have a "return" at the end of the last line. See the attached file, which I put in my "pats" folder, which is part of the AutoCAD search path, in ACA 2010.
Note also that stand-alone PAT files can only contain one pattern.
I looked at the pattern receipies in the existing brick pattern we have. It seems quite simple, but I ran out of time and had to get backt to "work" before I fully understood the sequence. Although it would be good to know how to make such patterns, it shouldn't be necessary. I can drive my car just fine without knowing how the carburator works. Read Y'all Later -KLYPH