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Make hatching in AutoCAD easy

By Ellen Finkelstein

Hatching can sometimes be frustrating, so I’ve collected a few hatching tips together, including links to other tips. Think of the collection as your personal hatching helper.

In case you don’t know, a hatch is a pattern of lines and dots that fills an enclosed area.

Create user-defined hatch patterns

When you choose a […]

November 13th, 2011 | Tags: , | Category: Drawing | 15 comments

Creating custom hatch patterns

By Ellen Finkelstein

While AutoCAD comes with a large variety of hatch patterns, you can also create your own. This feature has been around for many years.

Hatch patterns are stored in files with a file extension of .pat. You can add your hatch to the default acad.pat or create your own .pat file. As always, don’t […]

September 20th, 2000 | Tags: , | Category: Customization | 123 comments