

I'm hoping that someone here at eng-tips might have some experience/insight on the topic.


SW doesn't support custom hatches though we are able to create them. My fallback plan seems to be using the SW API to "sketch" the hatch onto a selected face in a drawing but ultimately I really don't find this to be a particularly attractive solution. Plus it has arcs which as far as I can tell are not supported in SW hatches. Free CAD and BIM blocks library - content for AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Revit, Inventor, Fusion 360 and other 2D and 3D CAD applications by Autodesk. The hang up appears to be that the hatch that I'm trying to make isn't really patterned the same as the standard SW hatches. Also I've downloaded a demo version of a utility called "HatchKit" and tried playing with that but this doesn't look like it'll work for me either. I started looking at the definitions of the standard SW hatch patterns in "Sldwks.ptn" but in reading through the instructions this doesn't appear to be an option. I went through checking them out a while back, and added comments at their individual pages about things like whether the loops touch or not, what kind of input you have to give it, some drawbacks to a few of them, etc., etc.I've been asked to look into whether or not it's possible to create the hatch for insulation (shown below in yellow). If you Search further for "insulation" just on that Cadalyst CAD Tips website, there are several other routines for Polyline results. Be sure to look at the image in my first comment there - it's pretty juicy, and even works along curved paths.

82 Hatch Patterns Free Download Access Free Download List of all Hatch Patterns Included ANGLE.PAT Angle steel ANSI31. Fill out the form below and I’ll email them to you right away along with the directions to load them. My favorite is my own InsulBattPoly.lsp, available here. Look no further, I’ve added 82 of some of the most popular design and construction industry hatch patterns. If, on the other hand, you actually want a squiggly Polyline end result, rather than a Hatch pattern or via AutoCAD's Batting linetype, there are a variety of routines that will do that. That pattern is defined at 100 drawing units "high" per row of squiggles, so use a scale of the thickness divided by 100. install on the Arch Desktop CD that will provide you the functionality of the old Softdesk Details module. If you mean you want a single row of that pattern, such as to show insulation in a wall, you can do it with some care about the boundary, scale and origin, and of course the rotation angle when the wall direction isn't horizontal. Yes, you can do that with the Hatch pattern.
