Hatch basics

- [Instructor] There comes a time in drafting … when you need to display the material of an object, … whether it's siding on an architectural elevation … or the materials of an assembly section, … like steel or aluminum. … Instead of drawing patterns and lines by hand, … AutoCAD allows to fill closed areas … with what is called a hatch pattern. … We'll find the hatch tool here, … and we'll present it immediately with the hatch visor. … We're requested also 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 going to click inside of the rectangle here … and immediately we can see … that I'm given a visual preview of the pattern. … I can move up to the hatch visor, … I can select a different pattern if I like, … from the list of hatches. … From the visor, I can also control the angle … and the scale of that particular pattern. … I can also search through the list, …