Hatch Wall Defaults

[David J. Potter]

Chief X2 question - Where can I alter the default hatching and size that gets put into a wall when I use the hatch wall command?

Moshe, as far as I know you cannot edit or change the default hatch for the hatch wall tool.

I am not the "last word" and frankly I have never felt the need to change the default hatch type or size (probably explains why I am not certain).

Your question seems to me to be perfectly straight-forward and understandable but language, as Scott has pointed out is a fragile vehicle sometimes to convey a perfect duplication of the understanding originally intended but it is all we have.

Others have offered work-rounds:

custom wall types where you certainly can control their plan-view appearance, even 2-D CAD fill boxes on custom layers could be used.

I would be quite happy to be "wrong" (it there is a way to alter the hatch pattern).

DJP

PS: since my post above Scott Hall made a video showing how to change the hatch pattern, per wall:

http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....370#post417370

but this does not work in X2 (it does work as shown in X4) sorry

[Glenn Woodward]

I believe that V10 was the last version that you could specify the default hatch scale, but even in that version you couldn't specify the default pattern.

[Moshe]

Thanks David!! Very helpful.

[Glenn Woodward]

PS: since my post above Scott Hall made a video showing how to change the hatch pattern, per wall:

http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread....370#post417370

but this does not work in X2 (it does work as shown in X4) sorry

Works OK in my X2!

[dshall]

Works OK in my X2!

That is because you have the Aussie version, remember the louvers, we could never control the size of them until X-4....... CA likes to challenge us Yanks.....

[5sheds]

This wall hatch tool could be very useful especially for alterations (remodels), I had never used it before, now I wish I could change the defaults aswell!!
Thanks Moshe and Scott!