Cast iron hatch pattern

Hello.

As an AutoCAD project, I have to draw a crankshaft. So far so good, but
I can't locate a hatch pattern for the counterweights. I can find
umpteen hatch patterns for various types of metals, but these are all
for sections. I'm looking for a pattern that resembles the exterior
(surface) of cast iron.

Feeding this (or any combination) into a search engine leads to 2,300
dead ends; every time, I'm finding section hatch. Any hints, even?

I'd appreciate it.

 

Are you looking for a hatch pattern (for 2D section) or a 'material' for a
3D version?

If for 2D, perhaps the AR-conc pattern, at small scale, would be good
enough.

if for 3D rendering, there are a number of metal 'materials' in the
materials library that might do what you want.

 

What I'd like to do is apply a material (Granite Pebbles looks fine) to
a 2-D drawing, to show the counterweights the way they might look in a
B/W photo.

It's probably a lot more complicated than it sounds... or maybe not. I
haven't even touched the topic of 'Rendering'. Trying to use AutoCAD's
Help functions for this is like some sequential scavenger hunt for
information.

 

As far as I can see, you can apply a material only to a surface of a 3D
object.

Hatch patterns consist of a series of straight lines, cleverly arranged to
simulate all sorts of wonderful things, but they are not like materials!

 

This is not something acad does very well.
Try the dots hatch pattern. You can use it several times with different
boundaries, and different colors to get better than "plain hatch".

Anybody miss that repetitive light banging noise you used to hear in a
drafting room when someone was stippling something before computers? How
about the hollow clang of a drafting brush hitting a Luxo?
--


MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.com

 

Hi