custom hatch patterns - ACAD10

[dtosh]

I added some commercial stone hatch patterns to my ACAD10 acad.pat file - at the end as instructed. I was careful to save as a text file.

I can not seem to find them when I start the hatch command.

I was able to do this in the prevous versions of ACAD.

As an alternative, I do not seem to remember how to get the program to find to the custom hatch patterns. I put the custom patttern files in the same subdirectory as the ACAD10 acad.pat file.

[scott.wilcox]

Check your MEASUREMENT and MEASUREINIT variables; AutoCAD may be reading acadiso.pat instead.

[bb]

You could type
(findfile "acad.pat")
at the command line to make sure the one you edited is the one you are reading. Have you restarted cad since you changed it? Not sure if that matters. The individual hatch patterns that show up in the custom tab are in the pats folder that is in the same place as the acad.pat file by default.

[dtosh]

Thanks - I was changing the wrong pat file.

FYI Scott The girl living next door to me in Plano, Tx is from Edmonton!

[scott.wilcox]

Good point from BB, it was entirely possible AutoCAD was loading acad.pat from a different location...