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Editing hatches and gradients

Editing hatches and gradients - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Editing hatches and gradients

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- [Voiceover] So we're staying in the same drawing again, the 07_HatchingGradients.dwg file, and you can see that we've got the hatch pattern, the gradient fill, and the solid fill as we've placed in the previous two videos. So how do we edit these hatch patterns? It's really, really quite easy. You'll notice - can you see? - when I hover over a hatch pattern, it kinda gray out or goes a bit grainy. Can you see that? And the whole idea of that highlight is it's letting you know that it's a hatch pattern. So if I click on the first hatch pattern that we placed, the crosshatch like that, can you see that obviously, when I click on that, the ribbon changes again, and I now go into the hatch editor? And the nice thing about the newer versions of AutoCAD, can you see that? I've got like a kind of purple hint there. Can you see that? So you get these slight different color highlights that allow you to see the different contextual setups that you get on the ribbon. So the hatch editor is…

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