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Editing hatch patterns

Editing hatch patterns - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing hatch patterns

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After creating what you thought was the perfect Hatch pattern, later on you may change your mind. Fortunately making changes to Hatch is very easy, because the workflow creating and editing Hatch is identical. Let's take a look. On my screen I have a drawing that represents a landscaping plan. Since we're going to be talking about editing Hatch, I'd like to create some hatch first. That way we know how it was created. I'd like to Hatch these large trees. To do that, I'll launch the Hatch command and then I will click once inside each tree and I'll press Enter to accept the default pattern. Now that we have some Hatch, let's make some changes. To edit Hatch, all you have to do is select it. Notice that AutoCAD is viewing all three of these trees as a single pattern. We can use this to our advantage, because any settings changes that we make will be applied to each tree. Also notice that when you select the Hatch, AutoCAD brings up the familiar Hatch settings. This means that editing…

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