I've created 'normal' and shape hatches before.
I can't find anywhere else how to place shapes in specific locations?
Pic:
magenta lines are the simple hatch created- the circles are hand drawn, but I want to add them to the hatch.
Architectural concrete hatch
Hatch patterns don't do Shapes if by that you mean the kind of thing you can incorporate into Linetype definitions.
To draw those "circles" would require linesets, each of which draws a tiny piece of one of them in pen-down mode, then goes to pen-up mode and skips over a large distance to a tiny piece of another one in the next block, etc., and a set of such linesets at different directions to draw the "circles" as sort-of-circular polygons.
How many segments would make one circular-looking enough? I attach a pattern [not a solution for you, but an illustration of how this kind of thing has to be done in Hatch patterns] that makes "circles" with 24 sides, so you can see what that looks like -- quite circular-looking at the likely size of yours, maybe even more than necessary.
You might be satisfied with, for example, little octagons, which would be a lot less code, because every edge of a "circle" is part of a different lineset.
BUT can you use >SUPERHATCH< instead? That would be far easier in not needing a pattern definition to be written, and could use true Circles. And the Circles can have a different Layer/color/whatever than the Lines, which a Hatch pattern cannot do. But it does have its limitations.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
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It seems that pattern is no longer available at the Cadalyst CAD Tips site. What does it look like? [If the site won't let you attach a .pat file, you can .zip it and attach that (as I just did at my previous Reply), or maybe the x's conversion won't happen if you paste it into a code window.] It's not likely that there's any simple adjustment to make it look like what you want, just because of the nature of pattern definitions -- see >this< for a taste of the issues involved.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@rob.aHH2T8 wrote:
.... I took a screen shot of it.
I can't get the definition from that without typing it all out, so if you have a .pat file....
Kent Cooper, AIA
@rob.aHH2T8 wrote:
Apparently, I can't find the "insert file"
It's this, down below the screencast area:
Kent Cooper, AIA
Using THIS, you can create something like this .. the circles can be created with points but maybe a square would work as well? It would be less 'heavy'.
Accepted solution
Here's another pattern that uses an octagon for the 'circle'.
*test2,test2
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