Download this free Custom hatch pattern of a Wood Custom hatch. The CAD file is saved as a.PAT file. To be uploaded in AutoCAD. Options Command. Support file search path. Browse to the folder where the files are saved and then click OK. There are CAD hatch patterns for roofing materials, flooring, siding, and landscaping. Hatch pattern materials include: tile, asphalt, wood, slate roof shingles, wood lattice, and chain link fence. AutoCAD brick patterns, concrete block patterns, wood grains. AutoCAD natural stone materials, and CAD hatch patterns. Wood hatch patterns for AutoCAD. Very nice selection of wood grain hatch patterns that can add some great detail to your CAD drawings. Also included is a hatch pattern for chain link fence, and metal grate. These patterns are part of a 350+ hatch pattern library that is available at ArchBlocks.com. Click the pull-down in the Hatch visor for Patterns and click Open Library. Click the drop-down arrow and select Add Patterns. Browse to the location of the custom.pat files, select them, and click Open. Custom hatch patterns files will automatically be copied to the following locations.
SUPERHATCH is a former AutoCAD Express Tool that is now included in the core AutoCAD product. You can create a hatch pattern from most anything without having to learn how to write a hatch pattern definition file.
Wood Hatch Pattern For Autocad
This AutoCAD tutorial is by Autodesk’s own Cliff Young of the AutoCAD Test Development Team.
Step 1. Draw a rectangle and divide it into quadrants.
Step 2. Draw wood grain.
Draw polylines across the rectangle to simulate a wood grain.
Be sure that the number of endpoints at the top edge is the same as the number of endpoints at the bottom edge, and the number of endpoints at the left edge is the same as the number of endpoints at the right edge. (This is important, because you will be connecting these endpoints later).
Step 3. Make 3 copies
2 copies of everything (rectangle, quadrant lines and wood grain).
1 copy of just the rectangle and quadrant lines.
Step 4. Trim the wood grain and copy the quadrants.
Inside the first rectangle, trim or delete all the wood grain from the upper-right and lower-left quadrants.
Inside the second rectangle, trim or delete all the wood grain from the upper-left and lower-right quadrants.
Copy the trimmed wood grain quadrants to their opposite quadrant in the new rectangle (E.G. upper-right to lower-left, etc.)
Step 5. Clean up the wood grain.
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.
Move the interior endpoints so that they are coincident. Do not move any of the outer-edge endpoints - these need to remain where they are so that the pattern will tile seamlessly.
Step 6. Join all the polylines and convert to splines.
AutoCAD Command: PEDIT
> Multiple
(Select all wood grain polylines)
> Join > Spline
Step 7. Create a Block.
Create a Block from the wood grain (do not include the rectangle and quadrant lines in the block geometry).
Step 8. Draw a boundary to be hatched with the wood grain.
Step 9. Using SUPERHATCH, apply the wood grain block to the boundary.
Autocad Hatch Patterns Wood Floor
AutoCAD Command: SUPERHATCH
> Block
Select the wood grain block Place the block in inside the boundary Accept all the SUPERHATCH defaults Pick a point inside the boundary
Step 10. Experiment.
Autocad Hatch Pattern For Wood Floor
Try different SUPERHATCH scales (X and Y) and rotation angles.
In this example:
X scale = 1.2 Y scale = 0.7 Angle = 3
Download Wood hatch other DWG
Thanks Cliff!
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