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/tip-2237-metal-hatch-patterns

Edited July 29, 2012 by ReMark

[ReMark]

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

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Drafting-Techniques/EXPANDED-METAL-HATCH-PATTERN/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?

 

http://

http://cadtips.cadalyst.com/patterns/tip-2237-metal-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.

[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.