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Hello
What's the point of using hatches in Autocad when they're much lighter and easier to apply in Photoshop?
Often times Autocad won't find the enclosed polylines and will therefore crash.
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Hi,
>> What's the point of using hatches in Autocad when they're much lighter and easier to apply in Photoshop?
You are comparing two extremely different products, at least which can't be compared because of it's different usage.
If you are using why using AutoCAD and not Photoshop in general then I would say because you can't create technical drawings with Photoshop, not 2D and not 3D.
When my job is to create technical drawings I can show one or more objects to hatch them (including finding islands for hatch like dimension text) to build the hatch (e.g. Photoshop does not know dimensions, so also can't recognize dimension text as islands) and in case I modify any of the objects the hatch is regenerated automatically, try all that in Photoshop.
If you don't create technical drawings then you can stay at Photoshop, but no need then to ask the questions here.
What's behind that question? Are you planing to draw in AutoCAD and then hatch in Photoshop?
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Often times Autocad won't find the enclosed polylines and will therefore crash.
Do you mean the command will crash or the entire application?
Either one does not really make sense. I agree that hatching in AutoCAD could be much better, but I have not see it literally crash anything in a long time.
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I just asked out of curiosity.
Many times I use Photoshop instead of Autocad to post-process drawings, because the second one won't hatch.
I think you can elaborate technical drawings even on Photoshop, the result is what's most important.
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@Alfred.NESWADBA wrote:
What's behind that question? Are you planing to draw in AutoCAD and then hatch in Photoshop?
This is what I think is the easiest thing to do
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Hi,
>> I think you can elaborate technical drawings even on Photoshop
>> the result is what's most important.
Correct, but not the paper is the result! Try to forward data into a manufacturing process like use the data on CNC systems or 3D-printer or create calculations based on architectural details like room-area, wall-area or listing number and sizes doors, windows, of electrical sockets or number of screws in a BOM for cost calculation or .... there exist thousands of samples.
SCNR:
Sorry to say, for me that sounds like your "result" is just the paper. In that case you loose a lot of money because you don't use all features you have within your CAD-system. You will never be able to create an associative dimension or a symbol with attributes that can be counted afterwards ... and that are the default functions used by all (trained) CAD users.
If you do only draw lines, then it's like @pendean wrote: "It's your choice" ... and I would add, it's like having a Ford Mustang, but only drive with 10mph.
- alfred -
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ISH-Solutions GmbH / Ingenieur Studio HOLLAUS
www.ish-solutions.at ... blog.ish-solutions.at ... LinkedIn ... CDay 2025
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