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how do I create offset hatches?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:53 pm
by LeoP
An utter deja-vue experience...
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewt ... f=4&t=1186
This file
- test.dxf
- offset patterns demo
- (20.76 KiB) Downloaded 605 times
is made with Qcad 2, following the instructions from the old post.
Open it in Qcad 2 and you see what is meant.
Just in case, here is a screenshot:
- test.PNG (44.32 KiB) Viewed 6312 times
Opening it in Qcad 3 does not yield a usable result, neither did fiddling around with patterns, scales and angles.
So... How do I do that in Qcad 3?
Re: how do I create offset hatches?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:28 pm
by andrew
Pattern offsets are not supported by QCAD at this point. The best solution I can think of is to use two different patterns that are defined as being offset by 50% from each other.
Re: how do I create offset hatches?
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:12 pm
by LeoP
... The best solution I can think of is to use two different patterns that are defined as being offset by 50% from each other.
That is what I wanted to do, but I found it impossible to add a pattern.
I researched the .pat file format and created these two (named
_general.pat and
_general_offset.pat) in the D:\QCAD Professional\3.1.2\patterns\metric directory
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*_general,general purpose solid line
0, 0,0 0,5
and
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*_general_offset,general purpose solid line with offset
0, 0,2.5 0,5
but even after a restart of Qcad3 these do not show up in the list of available patterns when creating a hatch...
What am I missing here?
*edit:
COMMA's, seperating the line offset from the line origin parameters.
I
knew it was something blatantly obvious...