- There comes a time in drafting where you need to display the material of an object, whether siding on an architectural elevation or the materials of an assembly section like steel or aluminum. Instead of drawing patterns of lines by hand, AutoCAD allows us to fill closed areas with a hatch pattern. We'll find the hatch tool here and are immediately presented with a hatch visor and the request to pick an internal point. Think of this as pouring a bucket of paint into the enclosed area.
The pattern will spread to fill the area you select so the area must be completely closed. I'm gonna click the inside the area here and I'm immediately given a visual preview of the pattern. I can move up to the hatch visor and select the pattern I wanna use, either from the dropdown here or by clicking on the swatch directly here. There's a rather extensive list of different hatch patterns that comes shipped with AutoCad for Mac. Fortunately, if I know the pattern I'm looking for I can search for it here on the bottom.
I'll select it, and I get another visual preview of what my hatch is gonna look like. I'm gonna close the hatch library and let's move from left to right and take a look at some of the options. I can change the angle of my hatch pattern, as well as adjusting the overall scale. Right now, my gravel looks a little small so I'm gonna scale it up by a factor of four. Much better. Next, moving left to right, I have some other options here including creating separated hatches.
If I click multiple hatch areas that are not connected, AutoCAD will still link this two together and consider them one hatch object. This is helpful if I go to update the hatch pattern later but it can also be a drawback if I need to change the hatch pattern of one section versus the other. Fortunately, I can adjust this here by creating separated hatch patterns. The eyedropper allows me to match the hatch properties or essentially use the eyedropper to pick an existing hatch pattern to set my new hatch too.
As I mentioned earlier, the area where hatching must be closed or AutoCAD will not know where to end the pattern. If the area you pick is not closed, like this rectangle here, AutoCAD will display an error letting me know that a closed boundary cannot be determined. AutoCAD also shows me where the most likely gap is using two red circles here. Once your hatch pattern is created you can click on it to edit it and that visor will reappear. You can also right-click after selecting the hatch object and change a few additional parameters like the set origin option here.
This allows me to change the origin of the hatch pattern. This is very useful if you're using a pattern to show something like ceiling tiles, floor tiles or brick so you can start the pattern at a specific point so it's centered. Hatching is also very useful and that it is intelligent and will react to the objects that created the original hatch boundaries. In this case, I have a circle here that was inside of my hatch object. If I adjust the circle, the hatch pattern contracts and expands to fill the space.
I can do the same with the circle here and the hatch pattern is intelligent enough to recognize the objects that originally created the pattern. Hatches make creating a fill or texture a simple task so you don't spend your time drawing lines or copying shapes to denote materials or surfaces.
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2/17/2015- Accessing palettes
- Changing preferences
- Opening and saving files
- Working with views
- Creating basic geometry: lines, ellipses, splines, and more
- Selecting, moving, copying, and scaling geometry
- Working with layers
- Using gradients
- Creating blocks and dynamic blocks
- Working with references
- Creating layouts
- Annotating drawings
- Plotting and sharing
- Starting in 3D
Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome50s
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1. The Interface
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Components of the interface1m 21s
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Accessing the palettes3m 8s
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Command-line overview3m 41s
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User preferences2m 59s
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Using the Help menu1m 51s
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The right-click menu1m 57s
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2. File Management
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File-type basics2m 11s
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Opening files1m 21s
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Saving files2m 15s
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Configuring a new drawing1m 10s
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Templates1m 56s
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Drawing units2m 49s
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3. Navigation
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Zoom commands2m 36s
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Panning1m 35s
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Regenerating and redrawing1m 22s
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Views1m 28s
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4. Basic Geometry
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Geometry of your geometry1m 57s
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Absolute-coordinate entry3m 17s
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Relative-coordinate entry2m 25s
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Lines2m 41s
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Circles and arcs3m 24s
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Polylines6m 44s
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Ellipses1m 45s
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Splines1m 54s
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Points1m 16s
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5. Geometry Tools
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Snap & Grid2m 30s
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Ortho and Polar Tracking2m 1s
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Object snaps4m 7s
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Object-snap tracking1m 56s
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Measuring tools3m 14s
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Divide1m 35s
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6. Modifying Geometry
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Selection methods4m 53s
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Quick Select1m 55s
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Move3m
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Copy3m 29s
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Rotate2m 24s
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Scale2m 24s
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Stretch3m 17s
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Trim and Extend3m 6s
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Offset3m 16s
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Mirror2m 23s
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Array3m 44s
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Polyline editing4m 48s
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Join and Break3m 11s
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Fillet and Chamfer3m 53s
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7. Layers
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Object properties2m 1s
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Layer basics2m 56s
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Creating layers5m 34s
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Layer tools2m 43s
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Advanced layer tools2m 31s
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Layer states3m 24s
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8. Advanced Objects
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Hatch basics3m 36s
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Using gradients2m 11s
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Groups1m 54s
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Blocks1m 38s
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Creating blocks2m 22s
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Updating blocks3m 24s
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Dynamic blocks2m 13s
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Dynamic blocks practice5m 41s
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External references3m 56s
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Binding external references2m 47s
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Underlaying images4m 9s
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Underlaying PDFs2m 36s
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9. Layouts
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Creating layouts1m 54s
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Viewport basics3m 33s
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Locking viewports1m 20s
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Viewport layers1m 33s
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10. Annotations
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Text styles1m 42s
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Single-line text2m 14s
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Dimension styles3m 35s
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Linear dimensions2m 53s
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Aligned dimensions2m 14s
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Special dimensions1m 31s
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Leaders1m 33s
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Dimension overrides2m 32s
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Annotation scaling1m 59s
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11. Plotting and Sharing
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Page setups3m 6s
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Plot styles2m 12s
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The Plot dialog1m 34s
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Plot to PDF2m 8s
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Batch publishing2m 8s
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Pack & Go1m 53s
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12. 3D Basics
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Views in 3D2m 50s
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Basic 3D geometry3m 14s
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Modifying 3D objects3m 22s
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Conclusion
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Next steps38s
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