Add Hatches On Autocad Mac
By James Philip I was asked recently to create a Flemish bond hatch pattern. My immediate response was that if you search the internet you will find one that already exists and I did. See Fig 1: - Fig 1 I was then told that they wanted specific brick sizes, so I replied that you can just edit the file to represent the brick size you require.
Below is an explanation of how I did it. The file that I found had brick sizes of 215 x 65 and 102.5 x 65 and a 10mm mortar thickness. To edit the.pat, you open it in Notepad.
The file looks like this: -.HBFLEMET,Brickworkflemishbond Free patterns from 0,0,10,0,150,215,-122.5 0,0,75,0,150,215,-122.5 0,225,10,0,150,102.5,-235 0,225,75,0,150,102.5,-235 90,0,10,150,337.5,65,-85 90,215,10,150,337.5,65,-85 90,225,10,150,337.5,65,-85 90,327.5,10,150,337.5,65,-85 0,168.8,85,0,150,215,-122.5 0,168.8,150,0,150,215,-122.5 90,168.8,85,150,337.5,65,-85 90,46.3,85,150,337.5,65,-85 0,56.3,85,0,150,102.5,-235 0,56.3,150,0,150,102.5,-235 90,56.3,85,150,337.5,65,-85 90,158.8,85,150,337.5,65,-85 Each line of code represents a line in the hatch pattern. To fully understand this I have illustrated each character set. See Fig 2 To understand and verify the offset distances you can create a dimensioned layout of the existing hatch pattern. See Fig 3 Fig 3 My new hatch pattern required brick sizes of 240 x 50 and 115 x 50 and a mortar thickness of 15mm. The resulting dimensioned layout is as follows. See Fig 4 Fig 4 The edited.pat file then looks like this.JP,Brickworkflemishbond 0,0,15,0,130,240,-145 0,0,65,0,130,240,-145 0,255,15,0,130,115,-270 0,255,65,0,130,115,-270 90,0,15,130,385,50,-80 90,240,15,130,385,50,-80 90,255,15,130,385,50,-80 90,370,15,130,385,50,-80 0,192.5,80,0,130,240,-145 0,192.5,130,0,130,240,-145 90,192.5,80,130,385,50,-80 90,47.5,80,130,385,50,-80 0,62.5,80,0,130,115,-270 0,62.5,130,0,130,115,-270 90,62.5,80,130,385,50,-80 90,177.5,80,130,385,50,-80 This should be saved to its own.pat file (e.g.
Flembond.pat) and placed in the support folder where the acad.pat and acadiso.pat are located. Do not edit these files (acad.pat or acadiso.pat) and add the code to them. Creating the patterns in separate files ensures that if the software is re-installed these files are not over written.
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I've been trying to add hatch patterns I've used in cad in the past by two ways: 1) Simply copying the entire.pat file into the Applications/BricsCAD V16/Contents/Mac OS/UserDataCach/Support/enUS folder and by 2) editing the default.pat file within this folder (copying text directly from one of my old.pat files I want to add) using TextEdit. I can't seem to get this to work using either method.
I've read old posts about this but I'm still confused. T read there was a second location where these files are stored too but I can't find it on my mac (using El Capitan OS X). Am I going about this the right way in either case? I was really hoping to just copy in.pat files to the folder(s) and go from there. Strangely, the path that shows up in my command line ( Users/WilliamArens/Library/Preferences/Bricsys/BricsCAD/V16x64/enUS/Support/default.pat ) doesn't even exist on my computer (or the folders are somehow hidden). My folder structure is set up differently than the path shown, with no Library appearing under my user name at all, but Library/Preferences are found directly under my Mac hard drive, with no Bricsys/BricsCAD subfolders there. I can only find a default.pat file under the path I noted in my original post, so I'm confused.
I appreciate your help though, as I was not aware of the 'findfile' command. Thanks Tijs and Roy! I followed your directions to find the appropriate support folder and was able to get my hatch patterns imported (I dropped them in separately, rather than altering my default.pat file, so they show up under Custom hatches). I have several stone hatch patterns that don't work for some reason (I previously used these in Autocad), but all other patterns I imported work fine in BricsCAD. The stone patterns don't show up in the hatch patterns list at all in BricsCAD. I downloaded a few new stone patterns from a website today and imported those into the support folder too but had the same results.
Add Hatches On Autocad Mac 2016
I'm happy that the others work but I hope to get a few stone patterns to work as well. Thanks again.