Topic: Error in Pattern File

[jonesy]

We have just received a custom hatch .pat file from one of our clients. When trying to load a hatch pattern from this we get a dialog box appear with  "Error in Pattern file"

Does anyone know what causes this and how to rectify it

Kind regards
Tracey

[MikePerry]

Hi

Check out the following Technical Document on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS36193 - Use custom hatch patterns with BHATCH command

Have a good one, Mike

[jonesy]

Thanks for that. Does that mean that each of these patterns will need to be seperated, or could I add them to a copy of acad.pat (dont want to mess with the original!)

Thanks for your time
Tracey

[Keith™]

You can add patterns to the ACAD.PAT file with no problems, but you cannot create a custom hatch pattern file with multiple hatches.

To incorporate new hatches, the hatch name and file name must be the same and there must be only 1 hatch pattern in the file... but you already probably read that from the tech docs.