- [Instructor] We're staying in our MetalPlate_001.dwg file,
and I just want to take you through a few
of the editing tools available to you
with things like hatching and gradient fill.
So you'll remember in the previous videos,
we've set up our hatching and our gradient fill.
Now, one of the things that you might want to do
is change your hatching and gradient fill
to individual hatched and gradient fill areas.
It's very, very quick and easy to do as well.
So we're zoomed in on the sectional view
that we've been working on.
I'm going to come in here, like so,
and you can see when I hover over that,
it's on the layer hatching.
So when I click on it,
we're going into the Hatch Editor
and we're actually going to edit the hatch pattern,
not the gradient fill at this point.
So what I'm going to do,
I want the hatching to be a little bit wider.
So I'm going to come to the hatch scale.
I'm going to change that to 2.5.
When I press Enter,
you'll see the spacing is a bit wider on my hatch lines.
I'm also going to come down here to Options, like so,
and create separate hatches, like so.
Now what you'll find
is that doesn't really look any different,
but when I close the Hatch Editor now
and come back into the drawing,
you'll see that each one of these
is a separate hatch pattern.
Can you see that blue dot in the center?
That's sort of the centroid of the hatch.
So each one of these is now a separate hatch pattern.
Now I can do the same with the gradient fill.
Now that's the reason why I've made the hatching a bit wider
because now when I hover,
I can hover over that gradient fill
with the crosshair a little bit more easily.
Can you see my pick box there on the crosshair
is on the fill and not the hatch pattern?
The Tool Tip is also showing me
that the layer is gradient fill.
That's why we have layers in AutoCAD,
to select different objects.
So what we can do there is click on the gradient fill
and you might get prompted about
this non-associative hatch boundary grips.
You can just close that.
That's not important for what we're doing right now.
But again, you'll notice
that we're now in the Hatch Editor tab on the ribbon again,
but you can see that we can now see
our gradient fill thumbnails.
So what we're going to do now is we're going to work
on our gradient fill.
If this keeps popping up,
this non-associative hatch boundary grits message,
you can click on "Don't show me this again."
It's just warning you that you're working on hatches
that might not have associative boundaries.
Now you'll notice here it is non-associative.
Can you see that?
That's why you're getting that message pop up.
It's not a major problem.
It doesn't need to be associative.
It can be if you want it to be.
But what I'm going to do is just turn this
into separate gradient fills.
So I go there, separate the hatches, like so.
Gradient fills are hatches, just so you know.
They are just solid fills of color.
And what we might do there now
is we might change the color of that left-hand end one
that is selected.
But just before we do that,
if I hover now one and two,
and you can see they're different hatch areas now.
And again, you're getting the
non-associative hatch boundary grips message
'cause you keep clicking on them or I do.
As you can see though, if I select just one, like so,
and I change the color.
Let's change that color number eight to a red color, like so
and then I just hit Escape a couple of times.
Can you see, I'm only changing the gradient fill
on one gradient fill area.
It's now broken down into the separate objects.