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Hatch basics

Hatch basics - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Hatch basics

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- [Instructor] There comes a time in drafting where you need to display the material of an object. Whether it's sighting on an architectural elevation or the materials of an assembly section, like steel or aluminum. Instead of drawing patterns of lines singularly, AutoCAD allows us to fill closed areas with a single hatch pattern. We'll find the hatch tool here, under the hatch tool panel. From here, AutoCAD displays the hatch visor. We're immediately presented with the option to pick an internal point. Think of this as pouring a bucket of paint into an enclosed area. The pattern will spread to fill the area that you select. So the area must be completely closed. I'm going to go ahead and pick a point inside of this rectangle here. And you can see that immediately I'm given a visual preview of the pattern. I'm going to move up to the hatch visor up here and click on the swatch here. Here, we can see a rather…

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