Hatch patterns and Stippling issues

Walter,

No, there's no licensing issue. We do have it on the wishlist to add more hatch patterns, including those updated ACAD hatch patterns into the default available hatches. Also some brand new ones. You should expect to see more added this year.

I do know about AR-B816, AR-B816C, AR-B88, AR-BRELM, AR-BRSTD, BRICK, and BRSTONE for ACAD hatches. Were there any others that you were looking for, and were you looking for them in the Site or Detail hatch section?

We have already started to add many manufacturer-specific paving patterns right inside the Reference Notes manager. Click new and add an area, and you'll be offered the option to choose one of the manufacturers in the system, or choose generic. There might be more of what you're looking for there, too.

Adding a Hardscaping Material from a Manufacturer

You also don't have to wait and can add any hatch pattern that you have in AutoCAD or have a .pat file for. Here's how: Save Hatches

Stipple is tricky. The issue is actually with how AutoCAD handles offsets with multiple islands. If it gets too complicated a shape, at a certain point the offset creation will fail. It is something that we're looking at as we look at other tools that need this, too. We certainly understand how often it's used in landscape architecture. That's why it was one of the first tools created.

For now, you could offset off of your islands and use just a few extra steps to create the look you're going for while also still calculating.

1. Offset once or twice from the islands. Fill that area with the sod, but end the command without offsetting in. That should create a dense stipple. Remove the island from that hatch.

2. Place the sod from the outer area. stipple inside. Add the dense stipple outline to that inner stipple as an inner boundary.

-Amanda