You can also have one particular pattern saved several times, each with different scales and angles. The ability to make that decision ahead of time – and not have to worry about the scale of a particular pattern in the future – is a nice advantage. The scale function is the key decision to be made when placing a hatch pattern, and AutoCAD seems to offer no real consistency for determining what a scale should be. You can also predetermine the scale or adjust it easily on the fly for future use. With Save Hatch, you can save and access a pattern quickly. In the past, figuring out the appropriate scale to set for any particular pattern would require complex charts. Plus, the scales will vary from pattern to pattern. When placing hatch patterns from AutoCAD, you really never know what the scale should be. Save Hatch is more useful than may be obvious at first glance. Why Should I Save My Hatches Into the System? You'll then beguided through deleting your hatch. If you would like to remove a custom hatch pattern you have saved into the system, type DELETEHATCH in the AutoCAD Command line and then press Enter. For more information, visit our Editing Hatch Patterns documentation section. You can then adjust the scale or rotation as desired. If you change your mind about the scale – for instance, if you decide you now feel the pattern should be a little denser in appearance – you can always highlight the pattern when viewing the hatch library it is in, and then click the View button. You set the scale of the pattern when you first entered it into Paper Space to save it. The pattern will automatically be scaled for the same look on both. When you place your hatch pattern into both Model Space (with your scale set, and a Paper Space viewport set at the same scale), and in Paper Space. Remember: What you see on your screen will become your small preview thumbnail of the pattern, so avoid zooming too far in or out. Zoom in quite closely to the pattern, and let it fill the screen. This process may seem complex, but remember: You only need to complete it once for each of your hatches. Why would you want to do this when you already have it saved in CAD? Because you'll find that hatches are simply easier to access and work with, as well as more logically organized, when you've saved them into the system. Now that you have a good idea of what your hatch will look like, it's time to save it into our system. That way, you'll be sure of what they will look like in an actual printed drawing.Īs you place more of your hatches in the Land F/X Hatch Patterns Drawing, you are adding to what will become the hatch section of your CAD standards binder. You'll probably want to print each of your hatches before saving them into out F/X database. You may have to print the drawing to view its final output scale. Your screen is currently showing the final look of the hatch. Once you save your hatch into the system, the hatch will be scaled automatically when you use it in either Model Space or Paper Space. Remember: You're working in Paper Space with no scale. This folder path is available in the AutoCAD Options. You'll want to remove this folder from the Support File Search Path once you have saved all your hatches into our system.įor CAD to be able to read your hatches, you'll first need to place them in what's known as the Support File Search Path. This folder will be a temporary location for your PAT files for the purpose of importing them into CAD. You can place this folder in the location of your choice – even directly on your computer's C drive. We recommend creating a single temporary folder to store copies of all your hatch files.
For more information on this drawing and its capabilities, see our Land F/X Hatch Patterns Drawing page.Īs part of the steps below, we included a link to download this drawing. This editable hatch library, available for download below, as well as in your LandFX > Administration folder, is designed to become a part of your CAD standards binder. The Land F/X Hatch Patterns Drawing is your key to the easiest method of saving and organizing your hatch patterns.