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Using the Hatch command

Using the Hatch command - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the Hatch command

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- [Voiceover] We're now in a new section in our AutoCAD 2017 Essentials course, and what we're going to look at now is Hatching and Gradients. Now Hatching and Gradients are normally used on a drawing to highlight specific areas of a drawing, so for example you might cut through a piece of metal and use a crosshatch on the sectional cutout view that you've created. In a construction drawing like the one you can see here, you might use hatches to highlight rooms that need working on or perhaps are going to be refurbished or rebuilt, something along those lines. Now the drawing itself you will recognize. It is familiar, it's that building with the doors, the stairs, the windows, and so on. And what I've done is I've saved some Model views for you and we've got an Office Model view that we need to go to and then we're going to Hatch the rooms in the office, ready to be highlighted to be used at a later date. Now we're going to look at a Hatch and we're going to look at what is called a…

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