Hatches

MeasureIt_ARCH Hatches create areas of solid or patterned fill in Vector Renders. Hatches are defined per material and can be found under the material settings panel.

Hatch Settings

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  • Use Object Color: If enabled this hatch will use the object color, rather than the hatches fill color

  • Use Object Pattern: If enabled this hatch will use a per object pattern setting, rather than a single pattern for instance of this hatch.

    Note

    This can be especially usefull for sections if you want to use a general "Cut" Material that gets applied by a boolean modifier, with a variety of different hatch patterns to denote differnt surface properties.

    For more detail on this workflow see the "Cutting Sections with MeasureIt_ARCH" Tutorial

  • Fill Color: Solid Fill color for this Hatch (Set Alpha to 0 for none)

  • Line Color: Outline Line Color for this Hatch (Set Alpha to 0 for none)
  • Line Weight: Line Wight for the Outline Line of this Hatch

  • Pattern: A collection to use as a custom pattern fill for this hatch.

    Note

    • Hatch Patterns need to be drawn at the origin in the 0 to 1 range on the x,y plane.
    • Hatch Patterns will draw all edges of the objects in the hatch collection as the custom pattern
    • Be sure to "Apply All Transforms" (ctrl-A) to objects in the Hatch pattern collection

  • Pattern Weight: Line Weight for the pattern fill

  • Pattern Size: Scale factor for the pattern fill
  • Pattern Rotation: Rotates the pattern fill for this hatch.
  • Pattern Opacity: Sets the opacity for the pattern fill for this hatch.
  • Draw Dashed: The outline of this hatch will draw dashed
  • Dash Size: Dash size for dashed outlines
  • Gap Size: Gap size for dashed outlines