- We're starting a new drawing now in this chapter
and it's called Office Layout_2.dwg.
You can see it's a slightly enhanced version
of the office layout drawing we've been using, previously.
And as usual, just download it from the library
to follow along with these particular videos
in this particular chapter.
So what we're going to look at,
is we're going to look at the boundary command in AutoCAD.
Now you'll notice on the right hand part of the drawing
we've got some rectangles here
and they're part of the landscaping
outside the office building.
And you can see they're formed of three rectangles
but there's this little space in the middle
that needs to be set up with a bit of hardstanding.
So basically, we're going to have a little paved area there
around some grassed areas and planted areas.
So we're going to just pan and zoom into that area a little bit
so that we can see what's going on.
And then what we're going to do,
we're going to utilize the boundary command
to create a boundary polyline that we can then hatch
by using the select objects option in the hatch command.
So we're going to make sure we're on the appropriate layer,
which is the hardstanding layer here
on the layer drop down, in the layers panel, like so.
We then go over to the draw panel here
on the home tab on the ribbon.
Click on this fly out here and you'll see hatch,
gradient, and boundary.
Select boundary and come into the drawing area
and you can see that we get a dialogue box.
Now just keep an eye on various things in the dialogue box
before you confirm your boundary creation.
So boundary creation, you would pick points
inside a boundary.
You can also pick up island detection,
if there's any other sort of closed boundaries
within the boundary that you're using.
You can also change the object type.
So you can use a region or a polyline.
We're going to use a polyline.
And the boundary set will be the current view port.
And what we're going to do,
we're just going to click on pick points.
We come into this area here,
there's the area that we want the hardstanding and click.
Can you see, it highlights the area there?
And then all you've got to do is press enter to confirm.
And you'll notice it puts the polyline
on the current drafting layer.
So if I hover there,
can you see there's a layer hardstanding
and it's a polyline?
I've got selection cycling on, as well.
So if I click, you can see that we've got two polylines.
One on the yellow color for the hardstanding layer
and then sort of, just underneath that you've got
this polyline here, which is green.
So I'm just going to hit escape to deselect now.
And you can see now that we've got a nice polyline
that we can use for our hatching.
So we'll now go to the hatch command, like so,
and what we're going to do,
we're going to pick this angle hatch pattern here
and we're just going to change the scale there a little bit.
It's a bit small otherwise,
so we'll do 250 and enter for the hatch scale.
And when we hover there, can you see
there's our little bit of tiling or paving
for our hardstanding area.
It's a left click, as usual,
and then click on close hatch creation, like that.
Now you'll notice I did that using pick points.
Let's go back a step.
Let's select the hatching
and I'll just hit the delete key and delete that.
Let's go back to that hatch command again, like so.
And what I'll do this time,
is instead of picking an internal point,
I'll use select, up here on the boundaries
in the hatch creation tab.
So there's select and instead of using pick point,
which I could have done anyway,
but I wouldn't have then had a boundary
for my hatch to be associative to.
So make sure that it's associative up here, like so,
and then I can click on the boundary like that.
Make sure you get the boundary and there you go.
There's your hatch pattern.
Press enter to confirm
and you then utilize your little hatch boundary here,
this one, to make sure that you've got your hatching
for your hardstanding in your drawing.
What we'll do now is just double click on the wheel
to zoom to the extent of the visible drawn objects.