It would be so useful if Rhino could provide hatches, that include a outline (in a specific width/color) and a solid background as specified in the screenshot attached. This function is native in Archicad or Autocad… [Hatches and Outlines]

While waiting for a unified solution, you can: Make a line hatch, copy it in place and change the hatch pattern of the copy to solid, then dup border of one or the other hatches. Make any changes to the line weight of the border and the color of the hatches - you can even make the solid hatch semi…

That is what we do currently… Thumbs up for a good solution soon…

Hi Matthias - this is how Hatch looks in V8/WIP at the moment. [image] That should cut down the steps - backfill includes transparency if needed. Missing, for you, I guess, is independent control of the border. -Pascal

Looks good… So the “Show Boundary” option is allowing to display the circumfering outline already? If yes… this is incredible useful. It would be perfect if the boundary could be specified with a separate color and print width… preferably via the layer (by layer option). Currently, in Rhino 7, w…

Pascal, would that (outline specification) still be something for Rhino 8?

As this would be a real killer-feature I am again asking iy you could manage to give us the option to define the boundary thickness/color/linetype!

Hi Matthias - [image] matthias: As this would be a real killer-feature I am again asking iy you could manage to give us the option to define the boundary thickness/color/linetype! This is somewhat already covered by a few YT items but I’ve added one explicitly for linetypes. RH-69609 Annota…

Hatch objects already support linetypes on their boundaries in Rhino 8. Create a hatch that has its boundary visible and change the linetype for that hatch object.

Thanks. Is the ByLayer Option for the hatch-boundary-linetype also available?

Hi Matthias - [image] matthias: Is the ByLayer Option for the hatch-boundary-linetype also available? If the hatch object is set to By Layer, the layer’s linetype will be used for the hatch boundary. -wim

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RH-84174 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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