TechDraw Hatch

TechDraw Hatch

Menu location
TechDraw → Hatching → Image Hatch
Workbenches
TechDraw
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
-
See also
TechDraw Geometric Hatch, TechDraw Hatching

Description

The TechDraw Hatch tool fills a closed region in a view with a tiled SVG or bitmap (introduced in 0.21) based hatch pattern. Alternatively the TechDraw GeometricHatch tool uses PAT based hatch patterns. See Hatching for details.

SVG hatch pattern on a face

Usage

  1. Select a closed region in a view.
  2. There are several ways to invoke the tool:
    • Press the Image Hatch button.
    • Select the TechDraw → Hatching → Image Hatch option from the menu.
  3. The Create Hatch Face task panel opens.
  4. Optionally change the Pattern file, the SVG pattern scale, the SVG line color, the Rotation, the Offset X and the Offset Y. The SVG settings are ignored for bitmap patterns.
  5. Press the OK button.

Notes

$INSTALL_DIR/data/Mod/TechDraw/Patterns
Where $INSTALL_DIR is the directory where FreeCAD was installed, for example:
/usr/share/freecad/data/Mod/TechDraw/Patterns
They are also available on GitHub.

Properties

Scripting

See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

A Hatch can be created with macros and from the Python console by using the following functions:

hatch = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("TechDraw::DrawHatch", "Hatch")
hatch.Source = (view1, ["Face0"])
hatch.HatchPattern = hatchFileSpec
page.addView(hatch)