AutoCAD Tips Newsletter: Make hatching in AutoCAD easy & how to create custom hatch patterns

Dear Subscriber, Please forward this newsletter to colleagues who want to learn more about AutoCAD. If you received this newsletter from a colleague, sign up for your own copy at EllenFinkelstein.com. Every field uses hatches. Mechanical engineers use hatching to represent holes and materials. Architects use it to represent materials, even grass. This issue is all about hatching. In this issue: Make hatching in AutoCAD easy Creating custom hatch patterns Click the image to save money on purchases! 1. Make hatching in AutoCAD easy 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. The tip covers: Creating user-defined hatches Starting the HATCH command Defining the enclosed area properly Controlling hatch origin and managing islands Considering hatches in paper space A secret for easy selection of hatched objects Get the whole story. 2. Creating custom hatch patterns This is an older tip, but do you know how to create your own hatch patterns? It's an important skill! 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 forget to make a copy of acad.pat or acadlt.pat before you edit it. If you create your own .pat file, here are some points to remember,,, Learn more! The most comprehensive book on AutoCAD AutoCAD 2012 & AutoCAD LT 2012 Bible Order the latest edition of my best-selling book, which I believe to be the most comprehensive book available on AutoCAD. It comes with a DVD full of drawings that you'll use for the numerous exercises. It's a combination of a resource book (so you can look up any topic you need to know about) and tutorial (so you can learn AutoCAD step-by-step). Have you bought a copy? Click Reply and let me know what you think! I'd appreciate it! Check it out! * * * * * Learn all about blocks in this thorough 69-page e-book, including the basics, dynamic blocks, attributes, annotative blocks, extracting data, and more! Includes drawings for numerous exercises. Only $10! Click here to purchase. (Full disclosure: I get 30%.) More You can find the latest tips in my AutoCAD Tips Blog .You can receive this newsletter via RSS news feed (instead of via e-mail) if you want. At the AutoCAD Tips Blog, look for the RSS button on the right. (The text says "Posts.") For more tips, go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com/AutoCAD_tips.html. For my AutoCAD books and other items, go to my e-store. You can sponsor this newsletter, or place an ad in it. Reach over 7,000 committed AutoCAD users. Contact me. If you want to reprint or reuse any of the content in my newsletters or on my site for your own newsletter, contact me. Happy designing and drawing, Ellen Finkelstein EllenFinkelstein.com Check out my Amazon page! Follow me on Twitter! (www.twitter.com/EFinkelstein) Use the links below to manage your subscription: Change your e-mail address; this opens a new e-mail message. Please give me both your old and new e-mail addresses. To subscribe, go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com/acad_submit.html.    ©2011 Ellen Finkelstein, Inc. | 2010 Coral Lane, Fairfield, IA 52556

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