Making Elongated mesh in AC 2012 LT

[netman]

I do not know what to do with it now that it is downloaded and saved in MY DOWNLOADS?

How do i get it into my AutoCAD?

[ReMark]

I would move the PAT files to the same folder as your acad.PAT file is located in.

Once you have done that start AutoCAD and open your drawing. Invoke the HATCH command.

For "Type" select "Custom".

For "Pattern" click on the button with the three dots on it. You should be able to select the "Spandedmetal" hatch pattern that you downloaded via the zip file.

[netman]

acadltiso
acadlt

both come up. which one would suggest?

Thank you for your patience with me in this.

[ReMark]

The two hatch patterns that came in the zip file are different from each other.

The two AutoCAD hatch pattern files listed are found in the same folder. One is for imperial users (acadlt.pat) while the other (acadltiso.pat) is for metric users. Don't edit either one of them. As I said previously, just put the two new hatch pattern files in the same folder as acadlt.pat and acadltiso.pat.

[BIGAL]

Here is an example of creating a hatch based on simple grid, start with the NET pattern which is a square the code looks like this
*NET,Horizontal / vertical grid
0, 0, 0, 0, 3.175
90, 0, 0, 0, 3.175

The numbers 3.175 is the spacing of a horizontal and vertical grid if you want say a rectang with sides twice the height then the pattern would become
*2xNET,Horizontal / vertical grid
0, 0, 0, 0, 6.35
90, 0, 0, 0, 3.175

You can see I renamed it also to 2xNET you just open the PAT file with notepad and add the example to the custom ones you have downloaded. You can steal patterns out of say acadiso.pat to alter just copy, rename and paste into your custom pattern.

A bit more the numbers in the PAT files like 0.125 0.25 using imperial refer to inches spacing 0.125 1/8" the patterns generally being based on old drafting standards once you get the hang of these numbers its pretty easy to make your own hatching sizes.

If you ask nice here often people have created a hatch pattern you may be looking for.

[netman]

BigAl,

I am so lost right now I can not even get back to MY last post to Remark.

I am totally not getting our instructions and I am very sure they are simple to someone who has done this before....
.... if I keep this up I'm going back to a drafting table and a fax machine!

[ReMark]

Please return to your other post (started July 31st) and ask your questions there or this is going to get even more confusing. Thank you.