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Add a solid fill to a closed object

By Ellen Finkelstein

Sometimes you want to fill a closed area with a solid color, rather than a hatch, like this. This feature is part of the HATCH command, but you may have missed it. It’s really easy to use.

If you need a primer on hatching in general, here are some hatching tips.

Here are the steps: […]

July 20th, 2015 | Tags: , , , | Category: Drawing | One comment

Manage embedded shapes (islands) when hatching in AutoCAD

By Ellen Finkelstein

It’s common to have closed figures inside other closed figures in AutoCAD drawings. When you hatch these shapes, you can specify whether or not the inner figures are also hatched. This becomes most important when you have 3 closed figures, one inside the other. In fact, you have 3 options for islands.

To set the […]

August 14th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Drawing | 2 comments

Use tool palettes to save and place user-defined hatch patterns

By Ellen Finkelstein

If you create user-defined hatches, which means that you specify the angle and spacing, you may want to save them for future use. You can easily do this using a tool palette.

First, create the user-defined hatch. In the Hatch and Gradient dialog box (or on the Hatch Creation tab in AutoCAD 2011), choose User-Defined […]

May 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Drawing | One comment