hatching

Does anyone know where I can find a hatch pattern for stone siding for some
architectural elevations?

Thanks
Bill

 

http://www.stonecad.com//About_StoneCAD/about_stonecad.html

Click on "Get StoneCAD(R)" and fill out the form. They will send you a FREE
CD that has several stone hatch patterns.

 

Thanks Gary
How long does it take to get the CD?

 

How long does it take to get the CD?

Several notes. First, this software will append the enormously huge hatch
patterns onto your acad.pat file if you let it, a very poor practice IMHO,
since the few that you might possibly find useful can be used just as well
as standalone pat files. Second, none of them looks as good as the freebie
that Dean pointed you to. There are a bazillion free hatch patterns out
there, do a Google search. The StoneCAD patterns, IMHO, are all far too
complex and mostly very ugly. You'll do better searching on the net.

If you have a Cultured Stone rep in your area they'll bring you a StoneCAD
disc. I had several dozen before I threw them away. They accunulate like AOL
sign-up discs.

Here's one that I wrote, simple and fast. Bear in mind that in terms of
"architectural elevations," real live architects have never aimed at a
photorealistic depiction of a material, but simply a shorthand to symbolize
it. We draw horizontal lines to symbolize brick, for instance, without head
joints, and never draw double lines in elevation to symbolize mortar joints.
This is not in any way intended to portray what a specific kind of stone
will "look like" but only as an architectural abstraction to convey "this is
a stone wall." You use samples and photographs to select the actual stone.
(And believe me, the StoneCAD patterns aren't any better than this at
portraying what a particular stone looks like. They just ugly up your
elevation.)

*Stone_Elev
0, 0,5, 0,40
0, 0,10, 0,40, 20,-17,35
0, 0,13, 0,40, -20,26,-26
0, 0,18, 0,40, 32,-14,26
0, 0,22, 0,40, 17,-15,40
0, 0,25, 0,40, -49,23
0, 0,29, 0,40, 32,-40
0, 0,32, 0,40, -32,25,-15
0, 0,35, 0,40, 32,-14,26
0, 0,40, 0,40
90, 3,0, 40,72, -5,5,-25,5
90, 7,0, 40,72, 5,-13,4,-18
90, 14,0, 40,72, -5,5,-19,6,-5
90, 17,0, 40,72, -18,11,-11
90, 20,0, 40,72, -5,13,-22
90, 24,0, 40,72, 5,-35
90, 28,0, 40,72, -35,5
90, 32,0, 40,72, -13,27
90, 37,0, 40,72, -5,8,-27
90, 46,0, 40,72, -10,12,-10,8
90, 49,0, 40,72, 5,-17,10,-8
90, 53,0, 40,72, -5,5,-30
90, 57,0, 40,72, -18,4,-3,10,-5
90, 59,0, 40,72, -5,5,-25,5
90, 63,0, 40,72, 5,-5,8,-22
90, 70,0, 40,72, -18,4,-13,5
90, 72,0, 40,72, -10,8,-4,13,-5

 

Cadalyst.com
search under Code, keyword hatch

Kent

 

The one Dean pointed out is not free...oh well.
The one you wrote, how do i get that into my pat file?

 

i'm sure there are some out there, but i gotta tell ya that the best thing
i've seen for this is done with superhatch.

draw your own tileable block of a stone pattern and use superhatch to fill
the areas. you can get more of a variation that way.

 

The one you wrote, how do i get that into my pat file?

Copy and paste. Make sure there is a hard return after the last line in the
pat file.

Better yet, unless/until you find you use it often, simply paste it into an
empty text file, and save it as stone_elev.pat. The filename must match the
pattern name given in the file. (And make sure of the hard return, or you'll
get an error.) Put it somewhere on your Acad search path, and it will show
up with a preview under the Custom tab in the Hatch Pattern Palette dialog.

Which is also how you should use any of the StoneCAD patterns in order to
try them out. Don't let it do its automatic install! If you find you
actually use a pattern frequently, then you can paste it into your acad.pat.
I don't do that just to try one out.

 

thanks Tom

 

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/lwcon/

Click on the Flags to change the side menu... look at the Hatch Patterns
section for Stones

 

This has the same filename and description, and looks the same as one of the
StoneCAD patterns, but has an earlier copyright date and differs in scale by
a factor of 12. Perhaps Stone Products Corp. was bought by Cultured Stone or
Owens Corning somewhere along the line.

 

Tom Smith: Copied your stone hatch definition and used it on a current project . It was a life saver! Thanks for offering it up.

I used the boundaries of 3dfaces in my 3d elevations for the hatch boundaries...seemed to work fine... after I remembered (finally) to align the UCS to the face I was hatching.... DUUUUUUH!.

 

Tom Smith: Copied your stone hatch definition and used it on a current
project . It was a life saver! Thanks for offering it up.

Glad it helped. It's a simple little pattern, quite the opposite of the
StoneCAD patterns, which are overly elaborate for my tastes. They also
"repeat" pretty obviously on a large elevations, which IMHO defeats the
purpose of having an artsy stone pattern.

 

Tom S: As a follow-up, I just had the opportunity to compare YOUR pattern with the actual stone on the project (which is an addition to existing) and by concidence it's very close to what's there. One day of architecture that went right!

Incidentally, the hatch was applied on 3dfaces of the 3D elevations I created. Looks great in overhead views.

teiarch

 

One day of architecture that went right!

That's always good! Thanks, I'm glad it worked. It's a fairly generic
pattern. The stone we encounter around these parts is often more thin and
horizontal, more like the "ledgestone" patterns in StoneCAD, but I haven't
bothered redoing the pattern yet. Reducing all the y dimensions
proportionately in the pat would be enough to get the effect.

 

Hi I tried your hatch but every time I try to use it is says error, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

 

What is the error message? As I said, the usual problem is not putting a
hard return after the last line in the file.