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…

Thanks, http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-31342 -Pascal

Cool, thank!! Any Python-coders around? Should be a fairly simple exercise… just get the lines between 0,0/1,0 and write them to a file. No bells an whistles needed for now, like displaying pattern repetitions somehow. I used to write JScript plugins for XSI, but I’m completely unfamiliar with t…

[image] Eugen: For some “insider”, it’s a matter of a few hours I’d say. [image] Eugen: Googled and found “HatchKit”, but they charge $70. Bit steep… And how does that compare to eachother? Does a few hours not add up to more than $70? Just saying -Willem

It sounds a bit like only a slight detour for the fabricator font creator plug-in by @DavidRutten . 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.

[image] Willem: And how does that compare to eachother?Does a few hours not add up to more than $70? True, but just for one person. Why do I not like the idea that everyone with the same (simple) problem has to pay that sum again…? Let’s merge assets… I did so myself (not using XSI anymore n…

[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

Create and use new hatch patterns

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Eugen September 11, 2015, 7:41am 8

Even for hatches like this?

Such tasks should be automatet. That’s what we have computers for…
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Eugen

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