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In AutoCAD I created a series of flooring and cladding hatch patterns library and two arrow blocks pointing at the start points (and directions) of applying. As seen, the hatch patterns are usual a...  Read more

Tip#: 4526
Author: Danny Korem
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Published on: 17-Aug-2015
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3
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Have you ever placed a hatch in AutoCAD only to discover it does not look like the pattern you selected? Here is a trick you might try before you pull your hair out trying to figure out why it is n...  Read more

Tip#: 4515
Author: Tina Stimpson
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Published on: 03-Aug-2015
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3
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I’ve been a big proponent of using associative hatches for some time now. Did you know that you can select text inside of your hatch boundary, and the hatch will create a border around this s...  Read more

Tip#: 4422
Author: Levi Connolly
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Published on: 02-Feb-2015
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Harold Detlaff has given us another nice AutoCAD hatch pattern similar to the one he shared in Cadalyst CAD Tip #...  Read more

Tip#: 4367
Author: Harold Detlaff
Rename File To: fluid2.pat
Published on: 14-Sep-2014
Downloads: 670
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Dean Petersen reminds us about AutoCAD’s SuperHatch command.

Don't forget to use the SuperHatch command. Either type it on the command line or find it in the Expr...  Read more

Tip#: 4298
Author: Dean Petersen
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Published on: 28-Apr-2014
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Harold Detlaff has given us a nice AutoCAD hatch pattern you can use to represent fluid. Drop the PAT file into a directory that is part of your support file search path, and the p...  Read more

Tip#: 4256
Author: Harold Detlaff
Rename File To: Fluid/,Fluid/Fluid.dwg,Fluid/Fluid.pat
Published on: 22-Feb-2014
Downloads: 633
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Frequent contributor Raymond Rizkallah sends us a unique AutoCAD routine that can generate hatch patterns on the fly. Before you get started, you will need to plan what you want th...  Read more

Tip#: 4138
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: MATRIX (Hatch Creator).lsp
Published on: 19-Jun-2013
Downloads: 858
Rating:
5
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Kent Cooper didn’t like the dot hatch patterns in AutoCAD, so he made his own and shared them with us.

“I was a little surprised to find that in AutoCAD’s/...  Read more

Tip#: 4061
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: DotsHatch.txt,__MACOSX/,__MACOSX/._DotsHatch.txt
Published on: 04-Feb-2013
Downloads: 1907
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Brian Glover shares a command macro with us that will reset your AutoCAD hatch pattern settings to the default values.

"The Match Properties function on the Hatc...  Read more

Tip#: 3967
Author: Brian Glover
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Published on: 27-Aug-2012
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Rating:
2
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This routine from Juan Villarreal will combine separate hatch objects into a single object. When you create hatch objects in AutoCAD, there is an option to create multiple hatch ob...  Read more

Tip#: 3937
Author: Juan Villarreal
Rename File To: MH_MergeHatch.lsp
Published on: 17-Jul-2012
Downloads: 3892
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