Dot Hatch not printing right

[Pipouille]

Hello,

I am using dot hatches from .pat files. Rhino produces nice round dots from these files, but it is impossible to export them as they appear in Rhino in a vector PDF. All the round dots become square dots. That’s problematic.

(Raster PDFs export round dots instead. But at a different scale. In fact, in Rhino, the dots are displayed twice as big as the thickness of the line, which is also weird.)

I’d be very happy to be able to print vector round dots at the size of the line thickness chosen.

Are there any special settings to be made?

DOTHATCH.3dm (3.6 MB)
SystemInfo.txt (5.1 KB)

PRINTVector300dpi.pdf (3.5 KB)
PRINTRaster300dpi.pdf (233.9 KB)

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi Pip -

@Pipouille

All the round dots become square dots.

Thanks, I’ve filed this as RH-86281 Print: Vector Outputs Square Hatch Points, Not Round
-wim

[Pipouille]

Hi Wim,

Thanks! I’d like to add a post here which, if taken into account, will solve this problem. Or at least offer the possibility of drawing dots in a different way; with short lines. Rhino’s support for points in a .pat file remains a problem in itself.

Round cap for hatch

Best,
Pip

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Answered here:

Wish: round cap linetype for hatch

Hi Pip - Looking at the Vectorworks link that you provided, it seems that the solution is the other way around. With two fixes of the current system in Rhino, the way to make circular segments would be as they do in Vectorworks. RH-86281 Print: Vector Outputs Square Hatch Points, Not Round (Note that Steve put this on the 8.x list) RH-84175 Section Hatch: Pattern from Linetype Width -wim