Hatch Pattern?

Hi All,

I was working on a project and was wondering if anyone has seen a hatch
pattern (or AutoLisp script) that would fill an area with puzzle shapes
(that interlock properly)?

Drawing it manually is a bit of a pain...

Ideally, they would be seperate entities that could then be moved around
etc. Right now I'm trying to trace over a bitmap, making each piece a
polyline so that the piece could be moved.

TIA
Steve

 

What you describe would be pretty much impossible to do with a hatch
pattern. However, you might be able to save some time by using some sort of
criss-cross pattern that emulates the layout of a jigsaw puzzle; then you
could use something like the BOUNDARY command to capture the outlines of the
individual pieces, which would be independently movable.
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i guess you need blocks for this.

 

Hiya there i do have a drawing of puzzles pieces you can copy and reduce the
parts as needed let me know if needed.

Regards

R

 

Not really. See my previous post about using polylines and the BOUNDARY
command. I've tried it and it works.
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Hi All,

Robert sent me his file and it helped me out greatly. If I get time to
play around with some scripts later, I'll see about automating it, but just
having the component drawing he sent me has cut down my time quite a bit.

Thanks again folks.
Steve