If you are wondering about the Ribbon, they are added there as well. Don’t forget to also look at that Hatch and Gradient Dialog box where you can also set hatches to be Annotative, Associative, and even setup a default layer. You can now have your favorite hatches in a separate folder for quick access. Move out to your Custom tab and your custom hatch patterns will be displayed in a list as shown.

Select T for settings once again to bring up our dialog box. Move back out to your command line and type Hatch or select Hatch from the Draw Panel on the Ribbon.

Hit OK and Apply and get out of the dialog box. Simply select the Move Up button and move to the top of the Support Search File Path (just in case you have other custom files that are loaded ahead of this file). It will be added to the bottom of your list. You will now browse out to your Custom hatch folder and add it to the path.

Within this dialog select the files tab and pull out the Support File Search Path and select the Add button as shown. In AutoCAD type Options at the command prompt or right-click in the command area to bring up the Options dialog box. The next thing we need to do is add that folder to our Support Search Path in AutoCAD. We then placed all of our hatch patterns that we downloaded to that folder. Move out to your local C drive (or network folder) and create a Hatch folder, in this example we named the folder CustomHatch. Notice how there is nothing in the image to the right under the custom tab. Let’s add some custom hatch patterns to this tab. Selecting the custom tab will bring up the same dialog box with nothing in there as shown highlighted in yellow in the image on the right. Next select the ellipses as shown next to the pattern name to bring up Hatch Pattern Palette with a Custom tab shown.Īfter selecting the ellipses you will see the Hatch Pattern Palette as shown on the left portion of the image below. This will bring up the Hatch and Gradient dialog box as shown below. You are asking “Sam, what custom tab?” Select Hatch on the Ribbon (or type Hatch at the command prompt) then T for Settings. Let us now add some extra patterns to the custom tab. You can give your patterns a name with the format *MYNAME, DESCRIPTION followed by the pattern as shown below in the EARTH example.Example of the Earth

You can edit the default PAT files that are installed with AutoCAD by using Notepad and adding your custom hatch pattern data at the end of the file. Hatch patterns are stored in a file named ACAD.PAT or ACADISO.PAT. Recently I have had several people ask me about the custom hatch pattern tab in AutoCAD and how to populate that tab with your custom patterns.

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