I want to set up so I can specify a hatch (rooftiles) and set a scale, a designeted layer (A-ROOF-PAT) and color. I also want to give it a different command than "BHATCH", say "ROOF". That way it would force this tile hatch on the right layer, right scale and color, and leave the BHATCH command for other hatching. All I have is this to start with, which I copied from Autolayer.dvb Am not very smart. Read some help on this, but mostly it looks like hieroglyphics to me. What would I have to do to make this work? Thanks Leo