[Search tip detail and code files using keywords, tip number, author name, etc ]
 
Related CAD Tips
To download multiple tips, check desired boxes and click the Download Selected button.
To tag a tip (or tips) for ease in organizing and identifying your favorites, check desired boxes and click the Tag Selected box (registered users only).
For tips to function correctly, you must ensure that the downloaded file name matches the file name displayed in the Rename File To field. Please rename downloaded files when necessary.

To reshape an associative hatch object in AutoCAD, you modify its boundary objects. To reshape a nonassociative or unbounded hatch, you modify the hatch object itself.  But there are some opti...  Read more

Tip#: 4492
Author: Nereida Ortiz
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 22-Jun-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Levi Connolly shared this useful AutoCAD tip.

When working in AutoCAD, if you need to insert a hatch in an area that isn’t completely closed, this tip may solve that ...  Read more

Tip#: 4281
Author: Levi Connolly
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 31-Mar-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Cara Nash Snyder sent this AutoCAD tip for creating multiple hatch boundaries.

If you select one hatch and right-click, you get the option to Generate Boundary, but if you ...  Read more

Tip#: 4282
Author: Cara Nash Snyder
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 31-Mar-2014
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Tipster James J. Olszewski sent this trick to avoid internal closed areas when hatching in AutoCAD. “This tip concerns the frustrating scenario of choosing a location to be h...  Read more

Tip#: 4112
Author: James Olszewski
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 06-May-2013
Downloads: 0
Rating:  Not Yet Rated

Frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky sent us a tip on using the boundary of a hatch in AutoCAD.

"Sometimes hatching boundaries get erased, for one reason or another,...  Read more

Tip#: 3521
Author: Leonid Nemirovsky
Rename File To: No Files
Published on: 01-Nov-2010
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4.5
  Rated by 2 users

Tip 2244: Polyline Subtract
Polyline Subtract came in from Peter Kitter -- with a little help from some online friends. The purpose of this routine is to automate the editing of a closed polyl...  Read more

Tip#: 2244
Author: Peter Kitter
Rename File To: Tip 2244: pls.lsp
Published on: 01-Oct-2007
Downloads: 967
Rating:
4
  Rated by 1 users

Hatch Back (Tip #2142), by Jimmy Bergmark, is a rebuild of a tip originally submitted several years ago. The LISP contains a command function, Hatchb (or HB for short) that lets you create the obje...  Read more

Tip#: 2142
Author: Jimmy Bergmark
Rename File To: Tip2142: hatchb.lsp
Published on: 01-Aug-2006
Downloads: 488
Rating:
3
  Rated by 1 users