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458 | Chapter 18 Hatches, Fills, and Wipeouts

Create Unbounded Hatches

You can define a hatch boundary with HATCH by specifying boundary points.

For example, you might want to show that a large area of a drawing is filled

with a pattern by filling only a small section of that area, as shown in the

following illustration.

In the illustration, you define an area to be hatched by specifying points

directly. The hatch pattern is

EARTH, and it is rotated 45 degrees. You can

choose whether to retain the polyline boundary after the hatch is created;

here the polyline boundary is not retained.

To define a boundary by specifying points

1 At the Command prompt, enter hatch.

2 Enter the desired pattern. For example, enter earth to select the

EARTH

pattern.

3 Specify the scale and angle for the pattern.

4 At the Select Objects prompt, press

ENTER.

5 Enter n to discard the polyline boundary once the hatch area has been

defined, or enter y to create a polyline.

6 Specify points to define the boundary, enter c to close the polyline bound-

ary, and then press

ENTER.

Command line

HATCH

points specified to

define hatch boundary

result