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Setting hatch patterns

Setting hatch patterns - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting hatch patterns

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- [Voiceover] In the same way that we used Gradient Fills to highlight our room areas in our Facilities Management drawing, we can also use Hatches and Solid Fills if we want to as well. And we're gonna go to the Home tab on the ribbon and go to the Layers panel again. I'm just gonna expand it out, and you'll see I've got FM-ROOMFILLS there as the current layer. So we're gonna go to Layer Properties again, and we're gonna create another new FM layer. This time FM- and then ROOMHATCHES. Now I always put everything on a separate layer in Facilities Management. There reason being is you can isolate each of them then by Freezing them or switching the layer on or off and things. Just double-click next to the FM-ROOMHATCHES layer, like so. And again, I've set that to white. Now this time, it's just followed the color of the previous layer created which was our FM-ROOMFILLS. We're doing Hatches this time so you might want to give it a different color, something quite vibrant like a pale…

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