Mikael Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) Any ideas how to create a hatch like this? Edited January 11, 2011 by Mikael Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Eric Gilbey, PLA Posted January 11, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 11, 2011 Actually this can be done with the new tiling feature in 2011. You can create this layout by creating a tile and see it arrayed in the shape you are specifying. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Eric Gilbey, PLA Posted January 11, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 11, 2011 Here are some screen shots...one of the tile being created (go to resource browser>right click>create a new resource>Tile Then it takes you to the tile edit mode. (I brought a screen shot of the sample in and traced it then gave the clouds a green line and the hatches a brown line. The other screen shot shows the tile as a resource that can then be dragged into the shape. The third screen shot shows the shape with the tile fill. Not to bad, once you see it in a large bed. Of course, you can give the tile a fill color as well. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Eric Gilbey, PLA Posted January 11, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 11, 2011 Well, in his question about creating a hatch, this would be perceivably a collection of linework that gets repeated within a shape. The idea of arbitrariness is forced into the shapes and orientation of the shapes so that when it is repeated, it is not too obvious that it is being tiled. Mikael, does this meet your request for creating your own hatches? Quote Link to comment
Mikael Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 Here is an example of a 655 layer hatch, pretty complex, I'd say. I could edit the hatch, and get the result I want, but it's too much work... Quote Link to comment
Mikael Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 It behaves quite well. It's not flawless, but ok. I tried it on area approximately 5 hectares and it works, very heavy though. I downloaded it somewhere, don't remember where... it's a part of larger collection of hatches. Quote Link to comment
Mikael Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Here is what I did in 10 minutes... A lazy man's edit, just randomly deleting layers. I've done a lot of work with distortions with the non-rectilinear hatches and I've managed to solve most of them. It's relatively easy, but it takes a lot of time. Quote Link to comment
liberian Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Mikael, would you mind sharing your large collection of hatches? Quote Link to comment
Mikael Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 (edited) Here is a sample of vegetation hatches. I might update the file occasionally, so I decided to share the file via Sugarsync... vw file is in this public folder https://www.sugarsync.com/share/bsq3b0dmdgajq and a preview pic of the hatches... Edited March 17, 2011 by Mikael Quote Link to comment
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