Topic: Water Hatch?

[craigr]

Does anyone have a Water Hatch that you are willing to share?

craigr

[Matt__W]

Maybe over here?? I can't DL zips so....

http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=522168

[craigr]

Thanks for the link.

I followed that link and several others and all of the water hatches appear to be the same file or VERY similar to each other. And, it / they aren't quite what I am looking for.

Attached is a .jpg of what I would like the hatch to look like. I have just been creating each line individually, which of course takes more time.

craigr

[Matt__W]

I don't have anything like that.  Sorry.   

[CAB]

I made this rather hurriedly. Maybe it will work for you.
Scale may need to be 100.

[craigr]

I made this rather hurriedly. Maybe it will work for you.
Scale may need to be 100.

That is EXACTLY what I needed!!

I bow to your Greatness -

Thanks A LOT,
craigr

[CAB]

Glad it worked for you. I've been wanting a pattern like that but too lazy to do it for myself.
Thanks for the motivation.
I may tweak it a bit tomorrow.

[CAB]

This is the one I tweaked.

[craigr]

Hey, I appreciate you going to all of this trouble.

Apparently others have wanted one also, aw I see it has been downloaded several times.

craigr

[CAB]

No trouble.

I'm supprised we didn't see it before now.

[Spike Wilbury]

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pat... attached

[craigr]

Since you folks were kind enough to help me out with the Water Hatch....

Does anyone have a linetype that looks like the surface of water?

Basically what I am looking for is when drawing a side view of a vessel and using the Water Hatch, I want to be able to draw it half full, (half empty). So, I need the linetype for the upper boundry of the hatch.

craigr

[dustinthiesse]

Apparently others have wanted one also, aw I see it has been downloaded several times.

I never know when or if I will ever need some things.  I just download them anyways so I don't have to go searching for it later.
Searching for stuff on the swamp can be a chore sometimes.

[craigr]

Reserecting an OLD Post (1 year later)

While looking at the old post, I see that I requested a Water Linetype. No one posted an answer to my request.

I am needing one again. Before I go to the trouble of learning how to make one, is it even possible to make one?

Basically, it would just be a bunch of arcs attached to each other by the ends. But, since the arcs are really a text, I'm not sure if making them a linetype is possible.

craigr

[mjfarrell]

why would the arcs be text?  (they do not NEED to be text)

is it a linetype or a hatch pattern?

start with something like this:

*FENCELINE1,Fenceline circle ----0-----0----0-----0----0-----0--
A,.25,-.1,[CIRC1,ltypeshp.shx,x=-.1,s=.1],-.1,1

only you will need to create and add to the ltypeshp.shx file a(n) Arc of the desired parameters, and then call that in your linetype definition


look in help under:

In addition to defining vectors, a specification byte can use special codes to create additional forms and specify certain actions. To use a special code, the second character of the three-character string (the vector length specification) must be 0, or you can specify only the code number. For example, 008 and 8 are both valid specifications.

Codes 0, 1, and 2: End of Shape and Draw Mode Control
Codes 3 and 4: Size Control
Codes 5 and 6: Location Save/Restore
Code 7: Subshape
Codes 8 and 9: X-Y Displacements
Code 00A: Octant Arc
Code 00B: Fractional Arc
Codes 00C and 00D: Bulge-Specified Arcs