false ceiling routine

[dani-perez]

Hello all,

I have this issue. I need to draw false ceiling of many rooms. Some of them are square-shape and others are irregular-shape. Is it possible this routine? I draw a pline (boundary of room including edges, pillars, etc) and it is filled with a square net of 60x60 (or other dimensions, 30x45, 20x30 etc) but I need a tolerance from the limits of pline. I mean, at least 30cm free from the pline in all directions (30 cm free, or 20 cm free or, between 20 or 30 for example. I need complete net of course of 60x60 or the dimension specified.

Thanks in advance

[Kent1Cooper]

Your example drawing does not show anything about what you intend for the "tolerance from the limits."  I can imagine what that might mean for a rectangle, but I'm not sure what you mean by it in a boundary with eges running at different angles.  Can you just OFFSET the perimeter, and Hatch the Offset result?

Your drawing uses two User-defined Hatch patterns at perpendicular angles.  Are you aware that for a square grid, you can do it with just one, if you set it to be Double-direction in the Properties palette or the Properties pull-down in the ribbon's Hatch editor [or simply when drawing it in the first place]?  For your non-square tile sizes, you can do two patterns like that, or it's not difficult to define Hatch patterns that have the proportions you want in a single pattern definition [I have some for (US Imperial) 24x48 tile size, with either single- or double-line grids].

[Sea-Haven]

If you just want to show a 60x60 pattern just use NET hatch with a scale. It is possible to move the hatch origin so have a corner start point.