how do I create offset hatches?

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LeoP
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how do I create offset hatches?

Post by LeoP » Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:53 pm

An utter deja-vue experience...
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewt ... f=4&t=1186

This file
test.dxf
offset patterns demo
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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
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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?

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andrew
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Re: how do I create offset hatches?

Post by andrew » Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:28 pm

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.

LeoP
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Re: how do I create offset hatches?

Post by LeoP » Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:12 pm

... 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:
:idea: COMMA's, seperating the line offset from the line origin parameters.
:oops: I knew it was something blatantly obvious...

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