
This procedure will walk through the process of adding a hatch pattern to your system, all the way through the final step of adding the pattern to the AutoCAD BHATCH dialog.

To turn on the snap to hatch, access the OPTIONS dialog (Tools menu), go to the Drafting tab, and in the lower left you will find the toggle.Īlso there is a command line system variable OSNAPHATCH, set to 0 for off (no snap), 1 for on (snap). In previous releases osnaps would honor hatches, in 2005 they are ignored by default. There has been a change in behavior in AutoCAD 2005 regarding the object snaps on its geometry. Any hatch pattern you find should work with any previous or future version of AutoCAD! The good news is that the hatch pattern format hasn't changed since it was first introduced years ago. Watson has donated these hatch patterns to the AutoCAD community.

The folder location has a path like:Ĭ: \ Documents and Settings \ pc name \ Application Data \ Autodesk \ AutoCAD 2005 (or other versions) \ R16.1 (17.1) \ eng \ Supportĭone this with the command "hatch" you will find the various types of hatches in the "palette of hatch patterns" in the "custom" windowįor those unfamiliar with the procedure for inserting. In order to use them, you have to copy and paste the files into the " support" subfolder of autocad.

We also provide the dwg file in which we have inserted most of the models and it can be useful to better identify the hatch to choose, as indeed also the preview of this page can be useful as a sort of legend. Walls with natural stones of rounded shape, angular stones typical of granite walls, with regular recurrences, with geometric and completely random shapes.

Hatch patterns for stone masonry, with blocks of various shapes and sizes
