ReMark Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Watson Kilbourne...the master of the custom hatch pattern. Here's a website where you can purchase a few hundred of his custom patterns for a darn good (cheap) price: http://www.compugraphx.com/ If that is still too expensive for your tastes then try over at Cadalyst magazine where you'll find WK contributed a number of free hatch patterns over the years to the CAD Tips section. Start by going to: www.cadalyst.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Free for the downloading hatch patterns here: http://www.cadcorner.ca/hatch.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rccola Posted February 25, 2009 Author Share Posted February 25, 2009 Thanks for all you help. I finally figured out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsT Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 I tried adding a custom hatch, following all the instructions here, but it will not show up. I made sure to save the file as an AutoCAD pattern file *.pat, and I even created a new pattern file, and it still does not show up. Is there something I need to do to activate it? I closed AutoCAD and restarted it, but this didn't help. AutoCAD Help said that I need to "set type to custom" in order to see custom hatches, but I don't know how to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugha Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Oh boy, I did this for another thread whereupon it turned out it wasn't what the doctor ordered. Could help here tho'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsT Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Here's what my hatch dialog box looks like - I think I attached the file, although I can't see it yet. I did set the type to custom, but the hatch pattern I added did not show up. I think I must be using a different version of AutoCAD because your box looks different. When I click on the ... beside the "Custom Pattern" box, nothing comes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsT Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I finally figured out my problem - I had an idea that I was saving the file to the wrong place, even though I put it in the folder where acad.pat is, which is C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2005\UserDataCache\Support\. I read in this site that *.pat files should be in the \Support\ folder (still not specific enough), and so I copied my new pattern to C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2005\Support\. It appears that AutoCAD has two \Support\ folders, and this was not identified before. The instructions I read before said to put the new file in the same folder where I found acad.pat, but this does not work for me. Does everyone else have two Support folders? I think that is confusing. I went back to look at the first instruction, and it said to find the \support\ folder here: c:\Documents and Settings\(your username)\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2005\R16.1\enu\support\ (edited to show my exact location) I guess that's where I should have looked first, but I did find acad.pat in the Program Files as well. It seems that I was using the one place that would not work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsT Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Thanks, Hugh. I saved your tip in a Word file that I use for AutoCAD tips. I'll get around to moving the files around later, since they work okay now. I have yet to use the Support File Search Path, but it looks like it could be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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