CADHatch Site Guidance, FAQ

 AutoCAD Hatch tips and and advice on getting the best from the hatching tools, and how to easily create your own hatch patterns.

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Terms of Use

Terms of Use page and PDF version

AutoCAD Hatch Pattern Installation

AutoCAD Hatch Pattern (PAT file) download and install Guide..

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Draftsight

DraftSight 2016 Hatch Pattern Install Guide

Write your own pattern definition file

Create Custom hatch patterns

Create your own patterns 

AutoCAD Express Tools Superhatch

Pattern Too Dense Warning

Setenv MaxHatch Setting

Concrete Pattern Missing Lines

AutoCAD Hatch Scale Problem

A list of AutoCAD Hatching System Variables

Hatching Variables

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CADHatch Hatch Pattern Naming

We have two types of patterns on the site:-

Scaleable patterns

These are patterns that are designed to be scaled to suit the drawing, there is no set or proper scale, just change to scale and preview until you like the appearance most of these patterns have a number on the end of the pattern name eg  HREC32E0.pat

True size patterns

 Pattern like this are Brick and Tile patterns, for drawings with units of millimetres the scale should be set to 1,  (if drawn in metres scale should be 0.001)

These patterns will have a letter at the end eg HT1002ET.pat.