You wish, or you can store it in it's own file. You can append a hatch pattern to an existing file if The same principalĪpplies to even the most complicated hatch pattern so, as my Mum oftenĪ hatch pattern definition is stored in a simple ASCII text file withĪn extension of PAT. Let's take a look at a simple hatch pattern first. Linetypes are used extensively throughout hatch patterns and a good understanding is a pre-requisite. It's the complicated ones that take time, effort, a good understanding of how to create hatches and linetypes, some knowledge of geometry and quite a bit of imagination.īefore proceeding with this tutorial, I would strongly recommend that you read my tutorial on creating custom linetypes. Honestly, though, simple hatch patterns are quite easy to create.

If you knew someone with Vectorworks, you could have them export to CAD, and then import that CAD into Rhino (hopefully it works - best to import into a blank file and not a file that’s dear to you).You want to what?! Create a hatch pattern? Crikey, you're brave. PAT files I believe and has many hatches not included with AutoCAD. There are a few different ways to get a hold of a ‘.PAT’ file, it doesn’t have to be straight from AutoCAD necessarily (small chance I could be wrong here). If it’s complex, you’ll have to dig something up on an internet search. My advice would be that if your hatch pattern is very simple (just lines) you can create it yourself. It looks super useful… too good to be free… there must be some catch? There’s a website called … but I want to express a caveat that I have never downloaded anything from that site. The attached image shows a couple hatch patterns I made (for Revit actually, hence one for each angle there were ways around that even but I’m risking going off on a tangent here). Creating a custom hatch definition in an AutoCAD. Chiming in more as an AutoCAD expert here.

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