Hatch patterns & MdiTab17

[Bespoke]

Hi Team
I trust you are all well sand in good spirits.

I have a couple of questions for you to get me out of themire.

I am running AutoCad 2012 64 bit

1/ I have a setof custom hatch patterns that I wish to install, can anyone inform me how toinstall them.

2/ I cannot getthe MdiTab17 to install. Any ideas.

Kind regards Alan

[MSasu]

1/ I have a setof custom hatch patterns that I wish to install, can anyone inform me how toinstall them.

Create a dedicated folder for those hatch pattern files (*.PAT) and add the said path to Support File Search Path list in Options --> Files tab. After this you should be able to see those custom patterns in Custom tab of HATCH command.

[hugha]

Create a dedicated folder for those hatch pattern files (*.PAT) and add the said path to Support File Search Path list in Options --> Files tab. After this you should be able to see those custom patterns in Custom tab of HATCH command.

This works fine. If you can't see the patterns as described ensure each .PAT file contains just one pattern, named to match the file - e.g: file "X.PAT" contains one file called "X".

Re MDI, tried this?
http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/AC...rawing-Tabs:en




regards,
Hugh Adamson
www.hatchkit.com.au

[BlackBox]

MdiTab17 refers to the database version for the ObjectARX code used to compile the source C++ code which is used to implement the 'tab' functionality... 17.0, 17.1, and 17.2 refer to 2007, 2008, and 2009 respectively (if memory serves).

You're now using 2012, which is 18.2 (again, if memory serves), which is why a 17-based compiled ARX file will not work.

Also worthy of note is that one must not only load a supported database version, but also account for the difference between 32-bit, and 64-bit environments, which is one reason why .NET development is more popular... One can compile a single solution to a .NET framework version and account for 'any CPU'.

[BlackBox]

FWIW - I've tried every 'tab' plug-in that I've come across, and I'm currently using iDwgTab as Kerry suggests in this muti-page thread about different 'tab' plug-ins:

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=41525.0

[Bespoke]

Thank you one and all