You've got things like brick, and sand, and clay, and so on. As we come down though, you can see there's lots of different styles of hatching available to you. You can see it there on the little, sort of swatch there that it shows you in the menu. The default is ANSI31, American National Standards Institute, 31.
Now there's lots of different patterns available.
And then moving across the ribbon, we want to use a hatch pattern. Which we are, which is why it's asking us to pick an internal point. Now, we want to make sure that we're using Pick Point, here. And what happens is, you get prompted to pick an internal point on the crosshair and we get another contextual ribbon tab called Hatch Creation. And we need the hatch command so we're going to go up to the draw panel on the home tab on the ribbon, click on this fly out here, which you'll recognize from where we used the boundary command previously, and we're going to select hatch. So we're going to look at the left-hand table, the one with the filleted corners, first of all. Create new layers, so that you can turn them on and off whenever you need to. Just allows you to see the wood for the trees and I can't stress that enough with layers in AutoCAD. And the reason you put your hatching on a separate layer, it allows you to freeze it, turn it off, work on some geometry, and then perhaps put it back into the drawing again. So on the layer drop down here, make sure you're using A hatching. Then what we're going to do is we're going to make sure that we're on the A hatching layer. You want them nice and big like that so that you can see what's going on with your hatching and your gradients. So they're just down here, so let's get those nice and central on the screen, first, using a bit of zooming and panning like so. And what we're going to zoon into is the conference tables that we created, in the bottom, left board room of the building. You will recognize the drawing, it's the floor plan of the office that we used in the previous chapter. It's called HatchingGradients.dwg and you can download it from the library to follow along with the videos as per usual. We're starting a new chapter now in our course and we're looking at hatching and gradients in our AutoCAD drawings.
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