Detail Hatch Patterns

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Power Tip: Save Custom Hatches

Detail Hatch Patterns Overview

Editing a Hatch Pattern
Editing a Placed Detail Hatch (Hint:Use our P-Hatch Tool)

Saving Your Custom Hatch Patterns Into Our System
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Troubleshooting

Placing the finishing touches on a detail includes filling certain objects with hatch patterns. Our hatch library includes several hatches designed specifically for building your details.

Detail Hatch Patterns Overview

Open our Detail Hatch tool:

F/X Details ribbon, Hatch button

Detail Builder toolbar

F/X Details menu, Detail Hatch flyout

or type FX_DetailHatch in the Command line

The Hatch dialog box will open with the Detail tab selected. Here, you can see thumbnail images of all our Detail hatch patterns. We've designed these hatches for specific uses within details you create.

We've updated our hatch patterns library to include subcategories for each hatch type, visible as extra tabs within each hatch type tab. More information

Select a detail hatch subcategory, then use the scroll bar to scroll down and see additional hatch patterns.

Once you've found the hatch pattern you need, click it to select it. Then click OK to place the hatch.

Our hatch patterns are simply graphic standards for typical materials you can use in the creation of a detail. You can easily add more patterns to this library using our Save Hatch tool.

Editing a Hatch Pattern

To edit an existing detail hatch pattern, follow our steps for editing hatch patterns.

Editing a Placed Detail Hatch (Hint: Use Our P-Hatch Tool)

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Power Tip: P-Hatch

Need to add to or subtract from an existing placed detail hatch?

If so, we recommend using our P-Hatch tool rather than the native CAD Hatch Edit command. Here's why.

Saving Your Custom Hatch Patterns Into Our System

For information on saving a hatch pattern into our system, see our Save Hatches documentation.

Note: Although it's technically possible to create your own hatch pattern as a block and then save it as a hatch, we do not recommend attempting this onerous task. Hatch creation from scratch is a difficult, involved process that is best left to professionals. Instead, we recommend finding a hatch pattern that's reasonably close to the pattern you're looking for – whether it is one of our existing hatches or another hatch you find or purchase from a third-party source.

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Details for Beginners: Take a full tour of our detail system, where you’ll learn how to navigate our detail library, find the details you need, and use them in your drawing set. (1 hr 1 min)