Any hatch pattern you find should work with any previous or future version of AutoCAD! The good news is that the hatch pattern format hasn't changed since it was first introduced years ago. Watson has donated these hatch patterns to the AutoCAD community.

You may not post them online (including web sites, ftp sites, bulletin boards, and other online services) for public downloading.Ĭoursed 3',6',4' & 5' Random Length StonesĬredit: Watson Kilbourne of CompugraphX produced the highest quality hatch patterns available anywhere.You may not distribute these patterns in PAT form, instead refer associates to this page.You may place these patterns on your system and use them in your drawings.This edit just got a lot simpler.To download these free AutoCAD hatch patterns, simply right click on the patterns you want and choose Save Link As, then place the PAT file in a path included in your AutoCAD support paths. In AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk gave us the ability to move a hatch pattern's origin with grips. If you move the starting point, the rest of the pattern moves with it.)

(The hatch origin is the starting point of the pattern AutoCAD draws the defined pattern from that point. If you want them to look the same, or at least to have their patterns aligned, move the hatch origin of one of them until they do line up. Or maybe you don't want the paper copy to look any different.įor example, let's say you used two separate hatch patterns to help find an area in square units. Sometimes you want that difference to be more subtle. Sometimes you want to clearly identify to different areas. Notes from Cadalyst Tip Patrol: There are many ways to apply hatch patterns in a drawing. Now both pieces remain separate, but look like a single piece.'

In the hatching dialog box, select 'Click to set new origin,' and select the point you want to match on the other piece of hatching. 'If you have a curved outline divided in the middle and cross-hatched in both areas and those patterns do not match, then select one piece of the hatch with a double-click. Longtime and frequent tipster Leonid Nemirovsky explains how to get adjacent hatch patterns in AutoCAD to match by adjusting their origin points.

Autocad hatch patterns