Fish Scale Hatching

[Steve Finhill]

Does anyone know if there is a fish scale hatching for Chief Architect. I am doing an historical house and the building dept. wants to see all the elements of this home. It currently has exterior trim that looks like fish scales.

[Eric Muetterties]

If you find an appropriate ACAD .pat file you can add it to Chief and access it when setting the pattern of the material (Create a new material).

You have to first open the new pat file and the use the entries drop-down to find it.

I have a pat file filled with tons of pats that I put together. It is simply a text file with them appended one after the other.

If you get lost email me.

[Tim O'Donnell]

here are a few patterns that may be what you want..unzip and put them in the pattern folder in Chief and when you select a pattern browse to this file and select one from the list..

[Dermot Dempsey]

Chief ships with some custom patterns that may be what you are interested in. Look at the custom patterns in Chiefarc.pat for Roof-G or Roof-D. Adjust the scale and you should be set to go.