Inside the second rectangle, trim or delete all the wood grain from the upper-left and lower-right quadrants.Ĭopy the trimmed wood grain quadrants to their opposite quadrant in the new rectangle (E.G. Make any other changes you want to any of the interior vertices of the wood grain. The only rule is to never move any of the outer-edge endpoints. Click on the desired area that you want to hatch and once selected, hit Enter.Īll done! For advanced users who are interested in more hatch pattern customization options, check out this tutorial from Ellen Finkelstein. Fit your pattern by following instructions. Choose “Block” as your desired pattern type, select your block by name and hit “OK”.ĩ. Go to the “Express Tools” tab > Draw panel > Super Hatch.Ĩ. Now select “Pick point” and place the cursor on the bottom left corner of your pattern drawing.ħ. Click on your drawing until it gets light blue, and hit Enter.ĥ. On the pop-up, choose “Select objects”.Ĥ. In the Block panel, click on the “Create” command, located in the top right corner.ģ. You can do this by following these simple steps:ġ.In your AutoCAD document, draw a desired pattern using a tool from the Draw panel.Ģ. Now, although AutoCAD offers plenty of hatch patterns on its own, sometimes we may want to personalize our drawings and implement our own hatch patterns. So getting the hatch patterns just as accurate as the drawings themselves is important.

These hatches represent the real material to be used.

This poses an interesting situation when AutoCAD users need to fill in the hatches of their drawings. And because AutoCAD designs can be intended for any structure under the sun, the material being used or involved in the design’s construction can vary greatly. One of the great things about AutoCAD is that it can be used to design drawings meant for different types of industries. Part 5 of 13 in our How To Use AutoCAD series

Autocad wood grain hatch