From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training

Hatch command - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training

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Hatch command

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- We're starting a new chapter now in our AutoCAD essentials course and we're looking at hatching and gradients. And surprise, surprise, we have a drawing called hatchinggradients.dwg for you. You know the drill by now, you can download it from the library to follow along with the video. Now it is familiar to you, it's a replication of the drawing from the previous chapter, and we're going to zoom in on those conference tables that we created in the room in the bottom left corner of the building. And we're going to utilize hatching first. Make sure you're on the A-Hatching layer provided in this drawing. And the idea being is you put your hatching on a separate layer in your drawing, so that you can freeze it or perhaps switch it on or off if you need to. The hatching command is on the draw panel, so you click on the fly out here, and select Hatch. Now as soon as you do that, you'll see the ribbon change quite dramatically and go to the contextual hatch creation tab. Now, we're just going to change a couple of settings here. We're going to utilize pick points here, we're going to make sure that we utilize a pattern, which is going to be NC31, which is the default pattern anyway. Make sure that you update your hatch scale to something in the region of 25 initially, just to see how that works. And then you're going to hover over the left hand conference table like so and click. And you'll see that that is quite a dense hatch. So we obviously need to change the hatch scale with that one. So what we'll do there is we'll undo that by right clicking and undoing that last hatch, and then it prompts us to pick an internal point again. Before we do that, double click in here, change our hatch scale to say 100, and press enter, and then you'll find now when you hover this time you're just starting to see the lines there appear with the hatch band. Now bear in mind this a millimeters metric drawing, so we might need to take this up to somewhere in the region of 250, 250 millimeters between each hatch line and press enter. And now when you come in, you'll see you're starting to see a decent hatch pattern there. So just left click, and there's our hatch pattern in place, and press enter to finish. And you'll see the contextual tab disappear and we're back to the home tab on the ribbon. Now if you zoom in a bit closer on that, you can see that there's a nice hatch pattern there, albeit a little bit dense, but it does make that conference table stand out in the drawing. Just pan across now, and what we'll do in the next video is we'll look at how gradients work in the other conference table in this room in the floor plan.

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