Use 'Tile' Resource as Surface Hatch

[Andy Broomell 738]

It would be great if renderworks textures allowed you to use Tiles in addition to Hatches for their Surface Hatch, mainly because it's 1000X easier to create something from scratch as a Tile compared to a Hatch.

 

If there's a technical reason why Tiles can't be Surface Hatches, then attention needs to be given to the Hatch Editor to make it more user-friendly. (This is true either way, I suppose).

[michaelk 319]

+1 on making the Hatch interface more user friendly.

 

Until then, I'd love to be able to import .pat files directly to VW.

 

[Bas Vellekoop 153]

+1 

 

Tiles are so much easier to work with. 

 @JimWare tiles more memory intensive and is that the reason that it is not introduced from the start? 

[PVA - Jim 2,338]

1 minute ago, Bas Vellekoop said:

Tiles are so much easier to work with. 

 @JimWare tiles more memory intensive and is that the reason that it is not introduced from the start? 

From what I have heard, yes. Also, apparently Hatches follow a whole pile of strange rules in the background to remain compatible with DWG import/export that Tiles do not, and there was concern of them being lost when applied to surfaces and then exported as well, mainly in elevation and section views I think.