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6. If you chose Predefined or Custom in the previous step, select any predefined or
custom hatch pattern from the Pattern drop-down list.
If you chose User Defined, you don't need to choose a pattern.
7. Specify an Angle and Scale for the hatch pattern. (Or, if you chose User Defined
in Step 5, specify Angle and Spacing.)
See the previous section, “Getting it right: Hatch angle and scale,” for more informa-
tion.
8. In the Options area of the dialog box, select the Annotative check box.
This time you're going to create annotative hatch objects.
9. Click the Add: Pick Points button.
The Hatch and Gradient dialog box (temporarily) disappears, and your drawing re-
appears with the following prompt at the command line:
Pick internal point or [Select objects/seTtings]:
10. Pick a point inside the boundary of the area you want to hatch.
AutoCAD analyzes the drawing and decides which boundaries to use. In a complex
drawing, this analysis can take several seconds. AutoCAD highlights the boundary
that it finds and previews the hatched area.
11. Right-click anywhere in the drawing area and choose Enter from the menu to
indicate that you're finished selecting points.
AutoCAD hatches the area inside the boundary. If you've correctly created an an-
notative hatch object, you see the annotative object symbol (the end of a triangular
drawing scale) beside the crosshairs if you move your crosshairs over the hatch.
12. Select the hatch object; then right-click and choose Annotative Object Scale,
then Add/Delete Scales to assign annotative scales to the hatch object.
The Annotation Object Scale dialog box appears, showing a list of all annotative
scales assigned to the selected object. In the case of a new hatch object, the only
scale listed will be the current annotation scale; if you're doing this in a new draw-
ing, the scale will probably be 1:1, the default value.
13. In the Annotation Object Scale dialog box, click Add.
The Add Scales to Object dialog box appears, displaying a list of all drawing scale
values stored in the drawing.
14. Select the desired scales from the list, holding down the Ctrl key to select more
than one, and then click OK.
The Annotation Object Scale dialog box reappears, with the scales you added dis-
played in the list box.
