

MEASUREINIT Controls whether a drawing you start from scratch uses imperial or metric default settings. Set the MEASUREMENT variable to the chosen setting, select the hatch, right click pick properties pick scale, change value to anything and change it back again, this forces it to update and refer to the correct pat file. *ANSI31, ANSI Iron, Brick, Stone, Masonry It would be good practice to set all your template files to the same settingīelow are extracts from the pat files. Find) In the drawing area, click inside each area that you want to hatch. (Hatch Creation tabProperties panelHatch Pattern Scale. On the Properties panel, enter a hatch pattern scale.

Find On the Pattern panel, click a hatch pattern.

acad.pat (imperial) and acadiso.pat (metric) The pattern that is used is determined by the setting of MEASUREMENT variable when the pattern is first inserted. Find Click Hatch Creation tabProperties panelPattern. You have two drawings using the same hatch pattern name, to make the appearance match, one drawing has to have the hatch pattern scale approximately 25 bigger than the other.ĪutoCAD has two hatch pattern files.
