Making Elongated mesh in AC 2012 LT

[netman]

CLOSING MESH AND SMALLER MESH ELONGATED.dwg

Wire frame no.137 mesh.dwg


Does anyone know how I can use AC 2012 LT to make ELONGATED mesh in a hatch....similar to the RED mesh shown here.

These mesh were made one at a time, copied over and over.

I'd like to be able to hatch Elongated Mesh into irregular wire frames.

The GREEN mesh is standard No. 137 AC hatch.

[ReMark]

AutoCAD LT. OK.

First I would try searching for a custom mesh hatch pattern rather than trying to create it from scratch. One good source would be over at the Cadalyst magazine website in the CAD Tips area. If that doesn't yield any results then I would try a general Internet search on the following "autocad"+"hatch"+"mesh". Still no luck? Then you have two choices. 1) Ask a friend who is using full AutoCAD to create the custom hatch for you using the SuperHatch command or 2) learn how to write your own custom hatch definitions.

[netman]

Thank you for the ideas. No luck on that search. I only came up with these Hatch Generators and I am way too Out-of-My-Element to try that .
I did register at that Cadalyst site.... so maybe someone will hit on something.

I did find a lot of FREE and Pay per use hatches... I am just not sure if I understood how to down load them and if they were safe. I do not want to screw up anything on this machine. I do not mind an expedition into the far reaches of some dismal swamp in search of the Loup Garou....but diving into LISP files and internal working on a computer just scares the poooop out me . ha ha !

Thank you for the ideas . The CADALYST site looks very promising.

[ReMark]

Hatch patterns are about the safest files you are going to find on the Internet for use with AutoCAD since they are primarily text files can be opened with any ASCII text editor like Notepad and viewed.

When you were at the Cadalyst website did you come across this one?

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/patterns/hatch-patterns

Or how about this one?

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/patterns...hatch-patterns

[ReMark]

How about this pattern found at the AutoDesk Discussion Groups website?

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Drafti...N/td-p/1717612

Seek and ye shall find.

[netman]

Hatch patterns are about the safest files you are going to find on the Internet for use with AutoCAD since they are primarily text files can be opened with any ASCII text editor like Notepad and viewed.

When you were at the Cadalyst website did you come across this one?

[URL]
http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/patterns...hatch-patterns

That has some useful look to it.

How do I download it and how do I get it into ACLT12 ? This is all scary new territory for me.
thank you.

[netman]

Oh Hek yea,

Some of those will get me real close.

Thank you .

[ReMark]

Click on the "Download this tip" button. Most likely the hatch pattern will be contained with a zip file. Save it to your Desktop then unzip it. You do know how to do that right?

[netman]

Yes. I have it saved in DOWNLOADS.
It is a zippered file.
When I click on it it comes up with the names of each hatch and load of numerical digits.

[ReMark]

There really is no need to open the PAT files.