Hatch patterns for walls in elevation

[seflorance]

Is it possible to apply a hatch pattern to a wall so it will show up in elevation? I would like to show the different materials in my elevation with hatches.

[arcus (Thomas Hardy)]

Unlike the section hatch, I don’t think its currently available as part of a wall type.

What I typically do is create another sub-layer in the ‘Walls’ layer category and call it “Walls-Pattern”. Then, using ‘DupFaceBorder’ you can select the face of the wall and get the curves out of it (including openings) followed immediately by the ‘Hatch’ command. I then immediately delete the face border curves so the linetypes don’t conflict with the underlying wall boundaries.

Its not the most elegant solution in the world, ideally this would all be handled as part of the wall type just like the section hatch. A big part of that wishlist item would include the ability to also control the basepoint location of the hatch so that you can maintain careful alignment across multiple walls.

For the hatches themselves, @SamPage made a great hatch maker tool you should check out.

Hatch maker plug-in for v6

Here it is complied for Windows V6. I had wanted to rewrite this so it worked on both Windows and Mac, but I won’t keep you waiting while I figure that out. Only thing different in this version is that while it still writes a *.pat file, the hatch pattern will also be added to the file. As for documentation for use, the plug-in adds one command: makeHatch. The quick rundown for the options would be: X and Y padding is how much room to add between repeating the curves selected. Currently you ca…

[seflorance]

Great, thanks! That is a good work around for now