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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition
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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition

by Ralph Grabowski
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 15

Down the Hatch!

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Placing hatch patterns in drawings

Bullet Applying annotative hatch patterns

Bullet Choosing hatch boundaries

Bullet Using predefined and user-defined hatch patterns

Bullet Editing hatches

When you need to fill closed areas of drawings with special patterns of lines (crosshatches, or simply hatches) or fill them with solid colors, this is your chapter. If you were hoping to hatch a plot or plot a hatch, see Chapter 16. If you want to hatch an egg, look at Raising Chickens For Dummies, by Kimberly Willis and Robert T. Ludlow (Wiley).

A hatch in AutoCAD is an object that fills an area. Its appearance is dictated by the pattern or fill color assigned to it. It is associated with the objects that bound the area — typically, lines, polylines, and arcs make up the boundary, much like borders of a country. When you move or stretch the boundary, AutoCAD normally updates the hatch to match the moved or resized area.

Drafters often use hatches to represent the types of material ...

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