- [Instructor] We're staying in
our "MetalPlate001.dwg" file.
I've left it zoomed in where we placed the gradient fill
in the previous video.
And as we discussed in the previous video,
our gradient fill is now on top of our hatch pattern.
And we need to kind of fix that so that the hatch
sits on top of the gradient fill
and makes it look all nice and clean and tidy
as if we've sliced through our metal plate in our drawing.
Now we can utilize a fantastic tool in AutoCAD
called "Draw Order."
Where we can bring objects to the front or the back.
So we can bring them to the front, send them to the back,
And we can tidy up our drawing display
so that it looks a little bit more realistic.
Now, in order to do that,
we're going to zoom in on one end of our sectional view.
Now that's the good thing,
because I know that these are all one object,
Can you see that's one hatch?
And if I zoom in a little bit closer
that's all one gradient fill as well.
You can see it on the gradient fill layer there.
So I'm going to zoom in
on the left hand end of my sectional view.
Now because I know they're all one object,
so I know that if I perform
the Draw Order functionality on this end,
it's all one hatch pattern
or all one gradient fill pattern.
So it'll all work,
going all the way across the sectional view.
So I'm going to zoom in and get in nice and tight.
The reason being, is I need to get between
those diagonal lines of the hatch pattern.
And I need to send my gradient fill to the back.
So if I just hover over it, can you see,
as I move the crosshair around,
the hatch pattern appears occasionally.
But you'll also notice that the gradient fill
kind of goes a darker blue.
So when it does that, and it highlights like that
can you see "gradient fill" on the layer there
on the tool tip?
When I click, when I go into the hatch editor now,
it should show me the gradient fill thumbnails.
You also might get this prompt
about nonassociative hatch boundary grips.
You can just close that. You can ignore that.
So what we're going to do,
we're going to send that to the back.
So with it selected, it's a right click
and Draw Order on the shortcut menu
and you want to send it to the back, like so.
As soon as you do that the hatch pattern appears.
But, here's the fail safe.
Just go over the hatch pattern and click on it.
And you should see the hatch patterns now
on the hatch editor tab on the ribbon.
That means you've got the hatching selected
not the gradient fill.
Right click again, go to Draw Order
and make sure that you bring that to the front.
Like so.
Now when I zoom out, you'll see that my hatching
is on top of my gradient fill.
And the sectional view
looks really quite effective and realistic.