Hello! What’s the best way to create a new hatch pattern, save it as a .pat file, and use it in Rhino or AutoCAD? I’m not talking about downloading and importing existing patterns, but making your own. I’m aware that a .pat file is a simple text file with point coordinates, but ‘writing’ one is c…

[image] wim: In the past I’ve just drawn a pattern up in Rhino and then evaluated point positions and written the text file from that. Importing, checking, changing, … in the end it worked out OK. Even for hatches like this? [image] Such tasks should be au…

Here you go :wink: Insulation-hatches.zip (3.3 KB) In the 01 version, I made line segments myself. In the 02 version, the DecimationTolerance in the MakeHatch plug-in was set to 0.5. Thanks, @SamPage ! [image] Hatch maker plug-in for 64bit Rhino for Windows Quite a while…

Thanks for the insulation hatches but I agree with Eugen, there must be a way to automate insulation hatches for things that are NOT rectangular?

Hello together, same wish, is there somthing new?

Hi - nothing new, no. RH-31342 is still open and on the Future list. -wim

Hi @wim , is there some news regarding lineup of insulation? Thanks Antoine

HatchKit can use non-rectanguar arrangements. Draw a motif and arrange visually to repeat reqularly along two different directions to form a fill pattern. www.hatchkit.com.au

I would like to add my vote for this feature. There is nothing on the market that works for Macs.

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We added the tile hatch pattern to the Rhino 9 WIP here so you can test it: New Component: Create Hatch patterns with Grasshopper in Rhino 9

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