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I think it's Format, Explode (twice, as I recall), after which, individual letters or the whole block can be selected and hatched. As they are selected, they change to a Magenta sort of colour, so you can follow your progress (don't do your drawings in the same colour!), then, having selected the last one, click on the chequered flag to complete the Polyline.Įdit 1: To hatch text*, the text needs to be "Exploded" - if you type some text, then try to select just one letter, the whole block will be highlighted regardless. I think the command is something like Modify, Join Polyline, then each line or curve is selected in turn (in any order I believe). Good point Simon - If the area to be hatched is drawn by the user (rather than originating via say the Square, Rectangle or Arc commands), the lines, curves or whatever must ultimately become a Polyline in order to hatch.
#Qcad hatch pattern not showing mac#
I hope this works as I know the MAC version isn't as well advanced as the windows one. Pick point hatch should then fill this with one click. If you draw a boundary around the whole drawing you can then simply draw a double line through the boundary and the part of the drawing (hold down the shift key to get a straight line). So make sure that the hatching is on a two different layers to the drawing, one for the top hatch and one for the bottom hatch.Īnother thing that I find very useful for drawing the tabs is to use the double line feature, you can set the width in the properties dialogue box (right click on the double line tool) I tend to use 1mm. Remember with hatching the it only really works for objects that are closed so it is best to draw rectangles and polygons rather than individual linesĪll these hatching transfer to to a DXF file and are the only things that the etchers need, they are not interested in the lines you have drawn at all. It works well but is slower and you need to make sure you have chosen everything you need.įinally if there is still anything to hatch pick path hatching should work, here you trace a path around the area you want hatched. Then use HATCH next, here you need to select all the objects that want hatched then choose the tool. Try it first and see what you can do with it as it is the fastest method if it works. However it is very temperamental, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, if you click in the right place it works other places it doesn't work or you get completely the wrong result. In theory Pick point hatching is the most useful as you just click inside a closed shape and it should hatch everything leaving holes where there is a hole drawn etc. If you go to VIEW TOOLBARS you can tick the Hatch toolbar to get that on screen Pick path hatching, Hatch and Pick point hatching.
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There is a hatch toolbar, there are 3 tools on it. I have never used the Mac version of turbocad but in the windows version it is all reasonably simple. But could this be a workaround or do phototools require absolute opacity? I can reduce the spacing of the lines within hatch to a notional 1/1000th of a mm, although it really slows things up on larger drawings. If not, does exporting to dxf, rather than dwg, maintain the integrity of the hatch, such that blocks of it can be highlighted and replaced at the etchers? Is there a way of hatching (nb not ‘filling’) that I’ve yet to find? The ‘Fill’ option uses bitmap, so can’t be used - at least not how I and my somewhat ancient laptop want to work! When exporting to dwg these areas of hatch become individual lines, each one of which needs to be removed before being replaced with solid at the etchers. My etchers require solid or ‘block’ hatching, whereas TurboCAD only seems to allow lines. Despite the best efforts of whoever it was who wrote the so-called ‘instructions’, and some initial challenges from a somewhat unintuitive methodology, I’ve found I’m now getting quite fluent with it - at least in 2D.
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#Qcad hatch pattern not showing software#
A requirement to have some new spacers etched for a project prompted me to buy my first ever CAD software package, and I plumped for TurboCAD v10 Deluxe For Mac.