

Sets the default color for new hatches in the current drawingĬontrols the display of the Hatch and Gradient dialog box and the Hatch Edit dialog boxĢ = Hatch and Gradient dialog box is not displayed for HATCH and GRADIENT when the ribbon is active (RIBBONSTATE = 1). Sets the default background color for new hatch patterns in the current drawing There are other ways to add Hatch patterns to your installation as well.Sets the default angle for new hatch patterns in this drawing Note that this is only one way of adding hatch patterns to your AutoCAD installation. Note that I also changed the scale to 100 before I clicked the internal area. Go through the process of creating your hatch but select an internal area. Search for and select the new hatch pattern you have downloaded, in this case called SPANTILE. Now start AutoCAD, zoom to an area you want to hatch and then click to hatch tool.Ĭlick the expand button on the bottom right of the pattern panel to see more hatch patterns and scroll down. Note: For AutoCAD 2009 and earlier, the default hatch pattern location is:Ĭ:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\Support What you now have to do is to copy the pattern file into a path where AutoCAD looks for files to use, in this case the general AutoCAD “Support” file path.īrowse to the location where you saved the pattern file, right click on the file, cut the file and past it into the following locations for the different Window operating systems:Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\Rxx.x\enu\SupportĬ:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\Rxx.x\enu\Support I downloaded the Spanish Tile Roofing pattern file onto the Desktop. įor this blog I went to the Dotsoft website and downloaded the Spanish Roof tile pattern. There are many other site on the internet and you will find them by simple doing a google search. A couple of site where you can download hatch pattern are: and. The new patterns are actually text based files with a file extension of. The first step to download these new hatch pattern files. A customer asked us how to load custom hatch patterns into AutoCAD as they see that you can download free ones from the internet.
