It is advised that you take a copy of the original and keep it untouched, just in case the modifications cause any issues. From now on you have access to your custom hatch pattern in the drop-down box within your “Area Hatch/Fill” command.
For example instead of selecting a standard hatch pattern and changing its angle each time, you can edit your “sldwks.ptn” file and copy and paste the standard hatch pattern and then change the angle of that. Now if you open this file with notepad, it provides instruction in the header of the file on how to create your own custom hatch patterns.
A file exists within the installation directory for the version of SOLIDWORKS you are using (C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\Lang\English) called “ sldwks.ptn” which is where the information for the available standard hatch patterns is stored and read from. At the end of the code, donu0019 t forget to add a blank line that contains a (single semicolon) as the first and only character. Copy it into your ACAD.PAT file or a customized PAT file of your own. To answer that question we have to know where the standard hatch patterns come from in the first place. more MTLSIDING.PAT This simple metal, vertical-interlocking siding pattern (figure1) is useful in elevation drawings.
SOLIDWORKS Hatch Pattern SOLIDWORKS Hatch Pattern File Location
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