If you have a tutorial on an Autodesk product they want to be posted to this blog and read by thousands of readers, please email me. Try different SUPERHATCH scales (X and Y) and rotation angles. Using SUPERHATCH, apply the wood grain block to the boundary. We have over 300 free AutoCAD architectural hatch patterns to choose from, ideal for those specialist CAD jobs needing custom designs. Draw a boundary to be hatched with the wood grain. CAD hatch library, hundreds of FREE AutoCAD hatch patterns, the collection includes wood, brickwork,stone and stonework. Join all the polylines and convert to splines.Ĭreate a Block from the wood grain (do not include the rectangle and quadrant lines in the block geometry). Do not move any of the outer-edge endpoints - these need to remain where they are so that the pattern will tile seamlessly. Move the interior endpoints so that they are coincident. The only rule is to never move any of the outer-edge endpoints. Make any other changes you want to any of the interior vertices of the wood grain. Inside the second rectangle, trim or delete all the wood grain from the upper-left and lower-right quadrants.Ĭopy the trimmed wood grain quadrants to their opposite quadrant in the new rectangle (E.G. Inside the first rectangle, trim or delete all the wood grain from the upper-right and lower-left quadrants. Trim the wood grain and copy the quadrants. (This is important, because you will be connecting these endpoints later).Ģ copies of everything (rectangle, quadrant lines and wood grain).ġ copy of just the rectangle and quadrant lines. CAD hatch library, hundreds of FREE AutoCAD hatch patterns, the collection includes wood, brickwork,stone and stonework. Draw a rectangle and divide it into quadrants.ĭraw polylines across the rectangle to simulate a wood grain.īe sure that the number of endpoints at the top edge is the same as the number of endpoints at the bottom edge, and the number of endpoints at the left edge is the same as the number of endpoints at the right edge. This AutoCAD tutorial is by Autodesk’s own Cliff Young of the AutoCAD Test Development Team. You can create a hatch pattern from most anything without having to learn how to write a hatch pattern definition file. SUPERHATCH is a former AutoCAD Express Tool that is now included in the core AutoCAD product.

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