HATCHEDIT — Edit Hatch

Modifies the pattern, scale, angle, gradient or boundary of a hatch.

• Command: HATCHEDIT · Global name: _HATCHEDIT · Alias: HE
• Ribbon: Home › Modify

Changes the pattern, scale, angle, gradient, origin or boundary of an existing hatch. It also opens when you double-click the hatch.

Usage

1. Enter HATCHEDIT (or HE), or double-click a hatch. If a hatch was already selected, that one is edited.
2. Select the hatch.

Select hatch object:

3. Change the values in the Hatch and Gradient dialog box (Hatch or Gradient tab) or with the command-line options.

Enter an option [Pattern/sCale/Angle/Gradient/Origin/inHerit/Disassociate/ASsociate/Separate/Boundary recreate] <exit>:

4. Press Enter or OK to apply the changes.

Options

• Pattern (P): name of the new pattern (? lists them).
• sCale (C): new scale, greater than 0.
• Angle (A): new angle in degrees.
• Gradient (G): switches to a gradient, or changes its type, angle and whether it is centered.
• Origin (O): new origin point of the pattern; it is applied at once.

Specify new hatch origin:

• Disassociate (D): the hatch stops following its boundary.
• ASsociate (AS): select closed objects; they become the boundary of the hatch, which is associated with them.

Select boundary objects:

• Separate (S): a hatch with several separate areas is split into one hatch per area (each with its islands).
• Boundary recreate (B): creates a polyline for each boundary of the hatch and associates the hatch with them.

Notes

• A hatch read from a drawing with a pattern that is not in the LinceCAD library keeps its definition: its scale and angle can be changed.
• When the scale is changed, the pattern goes back to its definition origin (the origin chosen with Origin is lost).
• To create the boundary polylines without associating them, use HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY.

See also

HATCH · GRADIENT · HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY · PROPERTIES · Hatches