Originally Posted by
Martin P
Why does it take such a tremendous effort to try to create a simple hatch pattern! (using the text editor) Anyone who has ever tried to create has no doubt spent ages messing about with it - then given up - Here is an idea - draw a tile of a x and y size, draw the pattern you want to repeat within the tile, then save it as "whatever.pat" - why not on earth is that not there already?
The method at the moment is complicated, more importantly antiquated (I bet it was the same thing in Autocad release 1.0!!!) and seems EXTREMELY like trying to learn some sort of programming - which I constantly read Autodesk saying you wont have to do to use Revit? well if you are happy with the very basic set of fill patterns provided I suppose that is correct.......
Personally, if it wasnt for the hatches posted on RUGI, I think a lot of my drawings would look pretty poor.
BTW - You may have guessed, I just spent about 2 hours messing about trying to create a very basic hatch (440x215 blocks with 10mm joints) I gave up in the end. so if my tone is a bit blunt, forgive me but I am a bit P'd off at the moment about it