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" just 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.

Edited Friday at 06:44 PM by DBCooper

[ROYOarchitects]

Thanks for your reply DB.  That is correct, the pattern can be set by adjusting the H & V offsets, but this is the futzing around that I described as 'painstaking'.  ;-)  

I also agree that one could use a different pattern, and have actually done this approach for other projects, but unfortunately for this jurisdiction in particular, they specifically want the 'large X' used across the entire block and each block tagged with a letter in a box and finally provide a schedule.

 

As much as I hate comparing different software, I know other programs allow you to set the start point of a hatch pattern by use of a grip and maybe, hopefully, CA can take this suggestion as an improvement to fill patterns.

 

All great suggestions though, greatly appreciate it.  

[DBCooper]

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Hopefully, CA can take this suggestion as an improvement to fill patterns.

 

You might want to post something on the suggestions forum then. Chief always says they don't look for suggestions in the Q&A forum.

[ROYOarchitects]

Got it.  I'll look for that forum and put that down as a suggestion.

[mthd97]

I wonder if it is possible to create a material with a single cross pattern in it and edit it with the reticle ?