Hatch Fast version 2

 

Fast hatching in AutoCAD

 

Disclaimer

WE PROVIDE THIS PROGRAM "AS IS" AND WITH ALL FAULTS.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE

UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE.

 

Internet Main Page (description and videos): http://www.nyacad.com/HatchFast/Hatch Fast.html

 

Overview

 

Hatch Fast: the program for fast hatching in AutoCAD + rail drafting tool: you can quickly add intermediate Rails, Pickets and Posts - hatches.

Hatch Fast is alternate to slow AutoCAD Hatch dialog. All parameters you can setup in convenient form.

Additional features: add hatch accordingly to the Dimscale; Filter hatches by Name; Set hatch Variables and others.

Besides regular hatch patterns several custom hatches are at your disposal.

Known issues: in AutoCAD2007 hatch dialog after invoking regular Hatch command doesn’t appear on the screen.

Solution: launch the program and click on option button Hatch Dialog. After that command hatch (dialog) works normally.

 

1. Start Application

 

Enter shortcut HY at the AutoCAD command prompt. The main form pops up (click on picture to enlarge):

 

 

2. Using the Program

Compare with your standards and edit if necessary default hatch scales for each hatch pattern (see picture below)

 

DimSC12= 0.5 means: if hatch scale is 0.5, hatch looks good when the scale of the drawing is 1”=1’-0” (Dimscale 12).

When you select different scale from list box, the program changes Hatch Scale equally. Thus the hatches added with using of this program will look uniformed: no matter whether the hatch is shown on the ViewPort with scale 1”=1’-0” or 1/8”=1’-0”

 

For hatch patterns Grate and AR-B816 (brick) when you change scale, the program shows real size of brick and distance between grate round bars.

For Pickets hatch pattern the program always set Hatch Scale = 1.

 

To add specified hatch click on radial button (see picture below):

 

 

Select scale

Select appropriate option (no hatch dialog or open hatch dialog):

 

 

and click on button:

 

 

Alternate (faster) way of performing hatch is using shortcuts. The corresponding command shown in form (e.g. HCO for Concrete hatch pattern):

 

The open the list of all shortcuts used in program click on the button:

 

 

For fast selection and modification of Hatch objects use buttons:

 

 

You can specify different name of Hatch layer in form.

 

3. Pickets and Posts – PARAMETRICAL hatching

The program has custom hatch pattern Pickets dynamically updated when you change the parameters: Center to Center distance between pickets and Size of bar. You can enter any distance using any format of numbers. Two options are available:

·         PK1 - distance to first left line of hatch from hatch origin = space between pickets

·         PK2 - distance to first left line of hatch from hatch origin = ½ space between pickets.

 

4. Balconies and Ladders – PARAMETRICAL hatching

The program has custom hatch pattern Balcony dynamically updated when you change the parameters. You can enter any distance using any format of numbers. Two options are available:

·         PB1 - distance to first left line of hatch from hatch origin = space between pickets

·         PB2 - distance to first left line of hatch from hatch origin = ½ space between pickets.

 

See examples of input and drawings below:

 

BALCONY PARAMETRICAL HATCH

1. INTERMEDIATE RAILS AND PICKETS

INPUT

DRAWING

 

 

BALCONY PARAMETRICAL HATCH

2. LADDERS

INPUT

DRAWING

 

Try to experiment with options (distances) as well as changing (if necessary) Hatch origin (AutoCAD2006 or higher) or SnapBase variable (AutoCAD prior to 2006). Read AutoCAD Help topics for using system Hatch variables (HPOrigin, HPoriginmode and others). Use shortcuts, it is faster (click on corresponding button in form to open list of shortcuts).

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