Chapter 17: Hatching and Section Lines

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Overview

Following this lesson, you will:

• Know how to add Hatching and Section Lines to your AutoCAD drawing through:

  • The Hatch command

  • The BHatch command and dialog box

  • The Tool Palettes

• Know how to edit hatch patterns using the Hatchedit command

• Know how to use the Sketch command

Remember all those templates I mentioned in AutoCAD 2004: One Step at a Time - Part I - the ones I needed to draw ellipses? Remember how much simpler (and more accurate) it was to draw ellipses with AutoCAD?

Here's another drawing tool that puts those pieces of plastic to shame. No longer will the drafter need to spend hours drawing each line or symbol to show section lines, a brick façade, concrete, and so forth.

With AutoCAD's hatch commands, you can fill a large area with lines or symbols in a matter or seconds!

This fourth section of our text will cover some razzle- dazzle tools. These are the tools that pushed CAD systems ahead of the drawing board as the preferred tool in design work. We'll begin with hatching in this lesson; then, in subsequent lessons, we'll learn to create blocks of objects and of information.

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