How do i prevent hatching from wrapping around corners on external walls in Chief


AdamEdgar
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hi guys, 

in the following drawing, i am wanting to setup my hatching on the external wall cladding so it represents my colourbond cladding panels (which are 300mm wide incl a 10mm gap between each panel)

 

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you will notice in the second close up image below that chief is wrapping the hatching around the corners. I dont want it to do this because it is not symmetrical 

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I am not sure if my cladding manufacturer can change the 290mm + 10mm air gap = 300mm panel widths so i need some workarounds so that i can show a vertical corner flashing that would resolve this. 

 

I realise that i could draw it manually with cad lines + replicate (at 300mm intervals)...just wondering if there is a faster and repeatable way of doing this as we do a lot of this kind of drawing work and our traliers are not all the same lengths or widths, however the wall cladding stays the same dimensions.

 

Our aim tis to be able to quickly work out what size our vertical corners need to be and provide those drawings to our sheet metal fabricator so he can make up the corner panels. 

 

In addition to the corner panels, we also would be using the hatch pattern in Chief to work out our window locations and sizes so that they fit nicely within the factory panel joins.

 

The Second image below shows what we wish to avoid in the future

 

- note the cutouts around the windows and doors...this is a real pain to have to make up during the building process and we want to avoid that in the future by have the windows and doors align with the 10mm gaps between panels.

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