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John Hyslop
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:27 am

Hi CVH
1st the above post was only meant to be a link
I'll edit it lol.. no idea why it selected the old post i only copied a link.
I understand your frustrations...it takes a bit of imagination and design skills from the user.. For me your tool would be a great time saver but for others that are not aware of the repetitive nature of hatch patterns and also designing something that's useful they will fail to understand the use of it. This is why I made a program that users only need very little knowledge on hatching.. If I had Java programming skills i would of made mine that way, but unfortunately I don't :-(

Anyway I wish you luck with your program and if you can make it foolproof you'll be onto something great..

Cheers
John
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:43 am

Hi All

Thank Husky for this one :-) should come in handy for a few I'm guessing :wink:
Tread Plate - Propeller Plate - Diamond plate - Chequer Plate - Checker Plate ... call it whatever you like lol
I've just named the hatches plate + number of bars the "A" means it uses angles the "B" means basic, just lines to simulate the plate...
I could only find
1 bar "Propeller Plate"
2 bars " Tread Plate
3 bars " Tread Plate
5 bars " Tread Plate
I wonder what happened to the 4 bars? I couldn't find any, but if anyone does let me know and I'll make a 4 bar pattern ;)

Bar length in imperial is approximately 1/2" ( 0.5 ) in Metric is around 12mm depending on which hatch you use...
scale if need...

Sorry files temporarily removed CVH noticed a few errors.. I'll try and sort out if not I'll upload the B type patterns until the other ones are fixed..

PLATES TYPE A - All Fixed Now Look Further Down

Enjoy,,
Cheers
John Hyslop
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TREADPLATES.jpg
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Wed Sep 02, 2020 9:31 am

A - TYPE - PLATE PATTERNS FIXED LOOK FURTHER DOWN
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:14 am

Hi All
The Plate hatches with the angles type A
are an absolute overkill and I would highly recommend you use the type B patterns for representation purposes..
Unfortunately all I have ATM is a lisp tool that is not perfect and can cause repeats and clones in larger spans so you've been warned ;-)

Best regards
John Hyslop
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:41 am

Hi All

Here are a set of Basic Tread Plate Patterns...
Note the Lineweight is set to 2.00mm [ Metric ] to give it a better representation...
Also Manually Fixed Errors from Lisp Tool on a couple...

1 bar "Propeller Plate "
2 bars " Tread Plate "
3 bars " Tread Plate "
4 Bars " Tear Plate "
5 bars " Tread Plate "

Cheers
John
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Basic Plate Hatch Patterns.jpg
Basic Plate Hatch Patterns.jpg (348.68 KiB) Viewed 48509 times
Plate Hatch Patterns - Metric and Imperial.zip
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Sat Sep 05, 2020 10:08 am

Hi All

Here's a MESH Hatch Pattern.. I'll be redoing the tread plate files I removed the other day
time prevailing ;)

Cheers
John
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Mesh - Metric and Imperial.zip
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MESH.jpg
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:28 pm

Hi All

I've now fixed up the Type A Plates [ Angled Ones ]
Thanks CVH for pointing out the errors & How to Fix Them ;)

Cheers
John

PS
The Metric version of PLATE-05A was displaying 4 bars instead of 5 Please download the corrected version here:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php? ... 288#p48288
or download here
PLATE-05A - Metric - Corrected.zip
(937 Bytes) Downloaded 32 times
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PLATES - TYPE - A.jpg
PLATES - TYPE - A.jpg (342.53 KiB) Viewed 48473 times
PLATES - TYPE - A - Metric and Imperial.zip
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by CVH » Sat Sep 05, 2020 12:41 pm

Didn't point out the errors.
Errors is when something is faulty.
As long as the pattern works, it is not faulty.

I merely pointed out on how to improve them. :P
Or 'how good can bad be'.

Regards,
CVH
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:42 am

Hi All

Here is a set of 2 hatch Patterns, MESH-02A & MESH-02B
It''s supposed to resemble expanded mesh...
If you find the hatches scattering at distances simply
set the hatch Origin to the object your hatching Origin

Enjoy
Cheers
John
PS Thanks Husky for the suggested pattern :)
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MESH-02-A-B.jpg
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Mesh Patterns Metric and Imperial.zip
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:51 am

Hi All

Well I have 2 Hatch Patterns Here, 1 I would use wisely , it's a bit of a CPU-KILLER ;)
It was a request so I thought I would share with all, it might have it's uses for small
hatch areas where you want to show a swirl pattern like the swirl steel effect...
Anyway here they are.. Enjoy... :lol:
Cheers
John Hyslop
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SWIRL-DOTS and SCALES - Metric and Imperial.zip
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SWIRL-DOTS - SCALES.png
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by CVH » Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:20 am

Swirl-Dots is surely a CPU killer ... :lol:
One can consider the hatch to be an intersection of the area within the boundary and 2185 planes filled with 1 dots per tile.

In Scales we see the magic of angle restriction ... Cloning load is 6 or less. :wink:
Nice.

Thanks John,
CVH
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:46 am

Thanks :)
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:15 am

Hi All
2 New Patterns Now Using Tile2Hatch Beta v0.14 © CVH 2020
These are experimental, RIPPLES was created with splines and converted
to a hatch with the above tool.. "I'll be using this for all future hatch patterns"
As Always I'm open to any suggestions Re: hatch patterns..

Cheers
John
PS Small update on Cardiograph Hatch , made 2 lines that were on same plane 1 line
It just means it's optimised a bit better, it was downloaded 5 times, no panic :-)
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CARDIOGRAPH Hatch Pattern - Metric and Imperial.zip
(2.99 KiB) Downloaded 1150 times
RIPPLES Hatch Pattern - Metric and Imperial.zip
(7.72 KiB) Downloaded 1299 times
RIPPLES HATCH PATTERN.jpg
RIPPLES HATCH PATTERN.jpg (207.5 KiB) Viewed 47405 times
CARDIOGRAPH HATCH PATTERN.jpg
CARDIOGRAPH HATCH PATTERN.jpg (148.9 KiB) Viewed 47405 times
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:42 am

Hi All

Now some CRAZY-PAVING :D
Sorry to those 5 who downloaded, the pattern had a couple of drifting lines , purely
poor design , my fault.. :oops:
The screenshot is hatched in metric @ Hatch Origins X100,000 Y100,000..it is now fixed .
Updated zip file at the bottom of this post..


Cheers
John
CRAZY-PAVING Hatch.jpg
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CRAZY-PAVING Hatch Pattern - Metric and Imperial.zip
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Re: Free Hatch Patterns

Post by John Hyslop » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:34 pm

Hi All

For this one I decided to use my
FREE BASIC HATCH TOOL, BHT-V3.0.1
Available here :-
.

https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... =15#p33566
.
..
..
3D_SQR_HOLES Hatch Pattern - Metric and Imperial.zip
(1.03 KiB) Downloaded 1262 times
3d Square Holes.jpg
3d Square Holes.jpg (139.02 KiB) Viewed 47105 times
Enjoy :-)

Cheers
John
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