Working with Hatches, Gradients, and Tool Palettes - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 565

2. Start the HATCH command, and go through the same process to apply
a hatch to the wall. Here is a summary of the steps:
a. Expand the Pattern panel on the contextual Hatch Creation tab
to choose the AR-RSHKE pattern.
b. Set the Hatch Pattern Scale to 1 from the Properties panel.
c. Verify that Create Separate Hatches is selected from the Options
panel.
d. Using the live preview, pick a point inside the pop-out wall and
pick one on each side of the wall. When choosing points on either
side of the pop-out, make sure you do not to pick a point inside
the window.
3. Each wall section is hatched using the AR-RSHKE pattern as shown
in Figure 11.7.
FiGuRE 11.7 The completed hatching of the south wall
Even though a hatch entity for each wall section exists, there's not much to dis-
tinguish the pop-out from the main wall. The next section will demonstrate how
to do this by modifying the location where AutoCAD begins the hatch pattern.
Hatching the Pop-out
Hatch patterns, or simply hatches , are a constantly repeating series of lines with
a constantly repeating pattern that fills a designated area. The hatch has a base