This article provides an in-depth tutorial on preparing and creating hatches for different views in a CAD drawing. The tutorial covers preparation, drawing and adjusting hatches, and adjusting cross-references.
Key Insights
- The tutorial begins with the selection of a view from the named views panel and preparation of the view by turning off layers that could interrupt the hatches.
- The creation of the roof hatch is demonstrated, starting with the drawing of a spline and finishing with the adjustment of the hatch scale to a size that matches the elevation. The tutorial also outlines the process of adjusting an external reference (Xref) to match the scale of the new hatch.
- The process of creating a stucco hatch is discussed, including drawing a spline, selecting a hatch pattern, adjusting the scale, and creating a second hatch to represent darker dots in the stucco texture. The article also mentions the addition of text elements to each view.
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In this video we are going to start on the hatches for one of our views. Now in this case we're going to add only one of the views hatches and then we're going to use copy with base point to copy the hatch around to the other views in a later video.
If you check your handout we want to use a view that has not only the wall hatch for stucco but also the roof hatch and that would be either the front or back elevation view. And seeing as the front elevation has two windows and a little less room, let's draw our hatches on the front elevation. So I'll come up in my view tab to my named views panel and I'll choose the front elevation.
There we go. And I want to clean up this view a little bit before we add our hatches. I'm going to go to the home tab.
A couple of layers I want to turn off because I don't want them interrupting our hatches. Those are the A no plot layer. You can see up here it would probably interrupt our roof hatches and our finished floor lines.
Now these could interrupt our roof hatches but more importantly we don't want them interrupting our stucco hatch, especially potentially at the bottom here. Okay, so I'm going to first switch my current layer to A pattern light and then I'm going to scroll up and turn off with the light bulb my A floor level layer and my A no plot layer. We'll turn those back on in a little bit.
Let's start with the roof hatch. We can see that the roof hatch is made up of some squiggly lines that bound the shingles hatch. This is similar to on our roof plan where we made a spline then removed it after we built our hatch.
Let's do that workflow now. We can draw this on the A pattern light layer because we're going to delete the spline after. I'll draw a spline fit and I'll pan up just a little bit and here I have ortho off.
I'll just draw a rough shape and hit ENTER to say that I'm done. Enter to go back in and I'll draw a slightly different shape on this side. Enter to say I'm done.
There we go. It does not really matter what shapes you create. Just make sure they don't have any loops or too sharp of points.
Now let's go to the hatch. Hatch and in this case, hit the drop down and find AR shake. We've used this one before.
Let's click in here and click in here. Now on the roof plan, we used a scale factor of one and we said that was good enough for now. But now that I'm seeing it on the elevation, I can see that this hatch is probably too large.
And you'll notice on the handout, in fact, that we've used a smaller size hatch all along. So in this case, let's change this to 0.5. Enter. And I like the look of that much better.
I can close my hatch creation, grab these two splines and hit delete. Now we have a problem. If I zoom out and go ahead and do it with me and I look at my floor plan here, I'll hit the layer drop down and I'll find VDCI plan model A roof pat.
Make sure you grab the A roof pat. Now these two hatches do not match. In order to edit this, I have to edit the Xref and then update it in this drawing.
You can see when I select the drawing, it selects it as an external reference. Now, in this case, we could open the reference and that opens the drawing for us. That's an excellent workflow.
And especially when you're working with large references, this is the right workflow to use. However, in this case, I'd like us to try edit reference in place. Go ahead and click it and you'll click the VDCI plan model and hit OK.
Now I am working in this drawing at the same time. Up in my ribbon, you'll see these buttons edit reference added on all of my tabs. If I go to the home tab, you'll see them on the far right.
All of the tabs are going to add in these edit reference buttons to remind us that we are working on the reference. Now go to the view tab and switch to the left view because we need our UCS to be in the world UCS before we edit this hatch. But now because this is a relatively small reference and a relatively small edit, we can utilize edit in place by grabbing this hatch, switching this to 0.5, enter, close hatch editor, and saving the changes for my reference.
All reference edits will be saved. That's perfect. We'll hit OK.
And now we can go back to our front view. Now these two hatches are going to match in scale. That's perfect.
OK, I'll zoom in on my front view, control S to save. Now let's add our stucco hatch, and this is going to be done in the same exact workflow. I'm going to go to the home tab, draw a spline fit, and I'll draw it in this region right here.
This is going to be a small kind of vertical shape. You can swing it down underneath the window if you want to. C, enter to close.
It's a little low, so I'm going to pull this point up by using grip edits. Perfect. Once you have a shape that you like, let's go to our hatch.
I'm going to hit the dropdown, and the next hatch in line is AR Sand. That's what we're going to use in this case. I'll click in here, and you'll see that this hatch scale is far too small.
I'm going to change the scale of this hatch to 4. Let's take a look at that. That looks much better. I like the scale of 4. We'll close the hatch creation.
Now I'll pick the polyline and hit delete. This hatch is only half of what we want to represent our stucco. If you check the handout, you'll see some darker dots scattered in with the light dots, and the darker dots seem to be fewer in number.
How do we make that happen? Well, let's grab our hatch, go to the home tab, and copy. Now this copy isn't going to be anything special. All we need to do is click anywhere on the drawing, and copy it just a very short distance away.
You can see I'm barely moving the mouse. Click to make a copy, enter to say I'm done. Now there are two hatches right next to each other.
If I zoom way in, you can see those dots. Two hatches right next to each other. Pick one of the hatches, right click, properties.
From the properties dialog box, we can change the current layer to a pattern heavy, and change the scale of the hatch to 12. Now when we deselect by hitting escape, escape, escape, we can see, it might be hard to see on the video, but we can see that the yellow dots are far and few between, and the gray dots all over. Perfect.
I'll close my properties dialog box, and control s to save. Before we copy these hatches to our other views, let's add some text elements that are going to be present on each view. I'll see you in the next video.
