SimpleCAD Offers Hatch Pattern Add-on for AutoCAD

SimpleCAD announced it has updated one of its CAD add-on utilities used to create hatch patterns in AutoCAD. The AutoCAD Add-on allows users to take existing drawing entities or CAD symbols and transform them into hatch patterns.

Drawings or blocks can consist of line, poly-lines, points, arcs, circles and ellipses. The hatch utility then captures and extracts the pattern from them and creates a .pat file (a text file that define the patterns).

An entire hatch pattern library can be built from scratch in a matter of minutes, the company says. The hatch manager also includes pre-drawn patterns, and a hatch pattern drawing viewer is also included to both compare and manage hatch libraries more efficiently.

The CAD hatch pattern application operates within various platforms such as AutoCAD and BricsCAD.

For more information, visit SimpleCAD.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.