From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Occupancy
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Setting hatch patterns - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Facilities Management: Occupancy
Setting hatch patterns
- [Voiceover] In the previous video in our zero zero ground fm settings drawing we used gradient fill to highlight an occupancy area. So I've stayed zoomed in on the drawing and there's our gradient fill there. And it stands out quite nicely, highlighting that room for whatever occupancy setting we need it to be set to. Now what we can do as well is utilize the hatch command as well, instead of the gradient fill. The gradient fill gives us colors, and you'll notice when I hover over that it's on the fm people layer but it does not adopt the fm people layer color. That's because the gradient fill uses its own colors. So just select the gradient fill, like so, and we're gonna delete that, so just use the delete key on the keyboard. Now make sure in your layers panel, on the home tab on the ribbon, that you've got the fm people layer set up like so. And then we're gonna go to the home tab on the ribbon again and make sure that we're in the draw panel. Click on the down arrow here, and…
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