http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2326 [p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]I'm currentlyhaving a great deal of difficulty creating a custom wetlands hatch pattern. I've a couplegoals in this endeavor, not the least of which is to unitize the hatch parameters so that scalingcan be calculated in relation to text size for different drawings (i.e. I don'twant the drafters to have to scale a hatch to 2.69x text size when a bit of care duringcreation could make that a round number like 3x text size).[/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]Anyways, ontothe intent. Essentially I want the pattern to appear similar to the grasspattern, but with 3 lines immediately underneath it, halved in size each timeto indicate water. This is the code I've used for those lines:[/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]0, 0, 0, 2.25,2.5, 0.5, -4.50 0, 0.125, -0.1, 2.25, 2.5, 0.25, -4.75 0, 0.1875, -0.2, 2.25, 2.5, 0.125, -4.875[/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]This actuallyworks out rather well and near to my intent, however, I was hoping the lineswould be aligned in an even criss-cross pattern and I'm not sure what the erroris in the code to fix this (see attachment). Furthermore, I'm having a lot ofdifficulty getting the first line for the grass pattern to actually be centeredon the water lines. This is the code I currently have for that, but as you cansee from the attachment, it's offset:[/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]90, 0, 0, 0,2.5, 0.5, -4.50[/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]The green linesin the second attachment are what I wanted the pattern to end up looking like.Does anyone have any thoughts on where my error is? I've been stuck trying tofigure out for 2 days now.[/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2] [/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=2]Thanks![/size][size=6.5pt][/size][/font][/p] TroutKing 2012-07-20 14:01:04 http://www.zwsoft.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=2326&pid=15526 Here you go if you want to use it as is or adjust the code to your preference. See the help under [url=http://www.zwsoft.com/Service_Support/ser_zwcad/Tips_and_Tricks/Hatch_Efficiently_in_ZWCAD.html]Customization[/url] if you need additional help. Rename the file to Wetlands.pat to use. robhowell 2012-07-20 14:35:16