- [Instructor] Using the area hatch
and fill feature in sketches is very easy.
All it requires is a closed contour to exist
for you to insert the hatch into.
Here I've got some simple rectangles and I'm going to add
some circles and just a rough shape over here
making sure that it's a closed contour.
We can see we've got shaded, closed contours on.
I'm going to go up to tools, sketch tools,
and all the way down towards the bottom,
you might have to click the arrow down to see this,
you're going to find area hatch fill.
We're going to click on that feature,
and basically you just select the contour that you want.
So I'm going to select this one first.
You can pick solid, you can pick hatch,
you can pick none which is weird but if you have a hatch
in there you can clear it out that way, sometimes.
Here it has all of the ANSI and DIN standards.
So, let's say if you're working in civil engineering
or you're doing a layout of a building you can pick
the specific materials that you want to show
with this fill or hatch.
Or, if you're cutting through or trying to show
a cut through of a particular kind of material
you can show that here.
So I'm going to pick this carbon steel one.
If I zoom in here you can get a little preview of the hatch.
You can mess with the scale.
So turning it up and down we can affect the gradient
of how many we see in there.
You can also change the angle.
So, for some reason you want to rotate that
to another angle position, you can do that as well.
You can also affect the color.
So, if you want something besides the typical black
you can select that here as well.
You can do it by boundary, like on a face,
or in the region, like we've selected.
I'm going to go ahead and click okay, and you can see that
inside there now I've got that green hatch.
I can do that again over here.
I'm just going to go ahead and go to sketch tools,
down to area hatch, select this area,
and again you see it fills it in.
It doesn't have to be a circle or square.
You can also do multiple areas at once,
so I just clicked on this circle as well.
As you can see the changes follow through for both.
I'm going to turn this one red.
Click okay, and hit accept.
You can see it's very easy to add these hatches and fills.
You are stuck with the selections that are available to you.
I don't know of a way that you can add
a custom hatch into this library.
I believe you can do it but it's going to take
a very specific kind of file type to go in.
This is pretty all inclusive here
with all the materials that are there.
They also have stuff like ground, glass, brick and mortar,
all of that stuff is all here.
So, you should be able to find what you need
so that's it's representative of
what you're trying to get across.
But again, it's very easy.
You've just got to make sure that you have a closed contour
or else it's not going to be able to add the hatch.