Adjusting a hatch origin

[ROYOarchitects]

Hello all,

 

I'm looking to see if CA, or anyone, has found a way to set the origin of a hatch fill.  I'm working in a jurisdiction that wants a plan view that blocks out areas with "X's".  I used a polyline and hatched it with a cross grid, but moving the origin to the center of the box (roughly) was painstaking (see example below).  

 

Hopefully if this is not a feature in CA, maybe this can be added to the program?  Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

[BenPalmer]

A 'cross box' would probably be a better tool for this situation.  Or two cad lines.  Then you can get it to look exactly how you want without fighting patterns.

[ROYOarchitects]

Thanks Ben.  I tried the cross box but unfortunately that route didn't work.  With a cross box, you aren't able to reshape it the way you can a polyline.  It was a while ago that I tried that approach so my recollection may be hazy, but I think I also could not label the cross box (I may be wrong). Lastly, I think I also wasn't able to schedule the cross boxes.  

 

I could use the two cadlines as well but then I can't really schedule those the way the jurisdiction wants us to provide them.  Here is the example of the schedule. 

 

I was trying to make these polylines useful to tag the spaces and pull areas and schedule.

 

[DBCooper]

Just to be clear, any pattern can be "moved" to the origin by setting the horizontal and vertical offset for the fill style.  Not the same as setting the origin but should be able to get you what you need if you are willing to do all that futzing around.  Personally, I would probably choose a different fill style so that it doesn't matter if the patterns are not all aligned with the origin.