Hatching is applied in landscape designs to indicate paving, mulching, decking, etc. Several entities can form the area to be hatched, but it must be a closed space. The HATCH command is used to start the process, a selection from a series of hatch patterns is made, the scale of patterning is adjusted, and the selected zone is hatched. The hatch patterns come from a file with the extension .pat. Hatching in gCADPlus works with AutoCAD hatch pattern files; many of these are available for download on the Internet. The figure below shows a design in which hatching has been applied to indicate lawn and vegetable areas.
The HATCH command can be activated in several ways:
- Activate the Draw drop-down menu and select Hatch.
- Type the HATCH command at the keyboard or,
- Pick the Hatch icon from the Draw toolbar.
Apply hatching part 1
How to apply hatching in gCADPlus landscape designs
Apply hatching part 2
Hatching entities in gCADPlus landscape designs.
Apply hatching part 3
Hatching entities in gCADPlus landscape designs.
Apply hatching part 4
Hatching entities in gCADPlus landscape designs.
Apply hatching part 5
How to apply different hatch patterns to gCADPlus landscape plans. We use the MATCHPROP command and ‘paint’ one hatch pattern from one zone to another.
Apply hatching part 6
We examine using different hatching styles in a detailed design for a rear garden space.
Apply hatching part 6
We show how to apply hatching to and between entities such as rectangles, polylines, etc., in gCADPlus landscape plans. The importance of applying hatching to closed polylines is emphasised.
Apply hatching part 7
We answer a question regarding hatching shapes with shapes in landscape drawings. We create a simple combination of a circle inside a polygon inside a second circle, and run through the options in the HATCH command.
Using the hatch command in gCADPlus when running on a Mac under CrossOver.