- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now
and we're going to take a look at hatching
and gradient in AutoCAD in a bit more detail.
We have touched on hatching a little bit in previous videos.
And what we're going to do in this particular case
is look at hatching and gradient fills.
Make sure that you are in the model tab
looking at the section in side view,
like you can see on my screen at the moment.
Make sure you go to the home tab on the ribbon
and on the layer dropdown,
make sure that you are using the hatching layer, like so.
So the first thing we're going to do
is place some hatching on the section view.
The side view is absolutely fine.
So we're looking at the side of our metal plate there,
and you can see the hidden detail there
obviously showing any holes going through
this particular metal plate.
Now you'll notice we've got some solid lines here.
Now those solid lines indicate a break
where the object has been sectioned.
Just to give you an idea.
If I zoom out a little bit,
there's the metal plate there, there's the plan view.
And the section is going along this horizontal center line.
So if I just do a zoom previous now,
I can do this from the nav bar, like so, zoom previous.
And that takes me back
to my section and side view where we were before.
So the side view, I'm looking at the side of the plate.
The section view I'm cutting down the middle.
So that slotted hole is represented by that line
and that line.
And I ideally need some hatching this end and this end
to show where we are slicing through the metal plate.
I'm going to go over to the draw panel now
on the home tab on the ribbon,
click on the fly-out, and select hatch, like so.
Now what it'll prompt me to do is pick an internal point.
Now that's normally the default
and in this case, that's absolutely fine.
I'm going to make sure
that I'm using the ANSI31 hatch pattern.
It should be there in your pattern panel.
If it isn't, just use the up and down arrows
to find it like so.
It's normally up at the top there.
There you go.
Third one in from the left, ANSI31.
Now the lovely thing about AutoCAD is I can hover
over an area where I might pick points,
and you can see there that it's obviously letting me know
as you can see where I'm going to hatch.
Now, ideally I want all of this to be one hatch pattern.
So what I can do here is I can go up here like so
and I can say to AutoCAD, create separate hatches or not.
If it's blue like that, click on it to switch it off
so that you're creating one hatch pattern.
You also want your hatch pattern to be associative,
because then if you do change your geometry,
the hatch pattern will follow the geometry.
So for example, if I stretched this section view
of this plate and made bit longer,
the hatch pattern would follow along to suit.
Now, the lovely thing is, is, as I said,
it gives you a little preview.
So I can click once, twice, three times there.
And once, twice, three times there.
That's making one hatch pattern
that as I said is associative.
We've switched associative on.
So if I now just press enter
or click on close hatch creation on the ribbon,
there's my hatch pattern, nice and neatly placed
in my drawing.
It's that quick, and it's that easy.
Now, if I hover over it,
you can see that it's all one hatch pattern.
And when I click on it once, I can edit it again
in the hatch editor, contextual tab up there in the ribbon.
I'm just going to close the hatch editor now.
And there's our hatch placed
on our section view in our drawing.