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OK, so what we're going to look at now are the Hatching and Gradient Commands in AutoCAD. So what we're going to do, we're going to utilize Hatching first and then put some Gradient fills into the landscaping and pond areas. So we've got the Hatch Layer set up here. I think it's ready to go on our Layer Panel there. What we need to do is we need to go to the Hatch Command here. So it's on the Draw Panel and there's Hatch there. Now when you open up the Hatch dialog box remember there's an arrow in the bottom right corner. Less options is like so. You may get this dialog here, so make sure you click on the little arrow to get More options. I'll just drag that so that you can see it. That way you get all of this: Islands, Boundary Retention, and so on. Now, what we need to do is we need to set up a Hatch Pattern and a Hatch Scale. So we look over here in the top left corner, make sure we're in the Hatch tab, not the Gradient tab. We're going to use one of the Predefined AutoCAD Hatch Patterns. There are loads in there already so we don't need to define one of our own. Now if I click on the down arrow here it gives me a nice list of all the Hatch Patterns available, but I can't see what they look like. But if I click here on this little button here I get a Palette; I can see what they look like. You have ANSI, American National Standards Institute, ISO, International Standards Organization, Other Pre-defined as in other ones that are in AutoCAD, and then the Custom when you create your own Hatch Patterns. I'm going to utilize the ANSI Hatch Patterns and I'm going to utilize ANSI31 to represent the outer skin of my cavity wall, my brickwork. So I click on OK there. Notice the Swatch changes. If I click on the Swatch it takes me back to the Palette, which is very useful. The Scale, though is 1. That is a very small scale for a millimeters metric drawing. I'm going to go for 50, like so. That makes all the Hatch Pattern 50 percent bigger. On a millimeters drawing remember it's going to be very big. There are going to be lots of big numbers. Ten meters is 10,000 millimeters, for example. So what we do not, Add Pick Points here and we need to pick an internal point in a boundary from the selected objects that form an enclosed boundary. So let's click on our Pick Points and see what happens. In the Drawing Area I need to pick an internal point inside my outer wall, which is going to be Ð can you see where the crosshair is, right there, near the doorway? If I now left-click it picks the objects that form that boundary. Doesn't have to be a Polyline, it can just be a group of objects like Lines, for example. So, as you can see it's worked with the Polyline and the Lines. Now be aware here, they all have to be on the same Layer and utilize the ByLayer option here. That way it will pick them up as similar objects and make them into a Hatch Boundary. Now if I right-click now I can preview that Hatch, and as you can see because I set up that Scale of 50 you can see the spacing of the Hatch lines there is very easily distinguishable. Read your Command Line now. Pick or Press Escape to return to the Dialog Box, or you can just right-click to accept the Hatch. I'm happy with that, so I'm going to right-click. There's my Hatch Pattern defining my outer brickwork on my cavity wall. If I go back to Hatch now, or I can right-click and repeat BHATCH, Boundary Hatch it's called, or I can actually just press the Spacebar or the Enter key. If I press the Spacebar now it repeats the Hatch and Gradient Command for me. The Return key, or Enter key does the same. Just a quick Keyboard Shortcut there for you. I'm going to change my Swatch here. I click on the Swatch, I now want ANSI32, I OK that. It keeps the Scale of 50. Add Pick Points here in the middle and I now go for my inside wall skin there, my block work. Again look, it finds the boundary for me, just by picking a point inside those objects that form the boundary. I now right-click again and Preview, and as you can see now it's placed the ANSI32 Style in there, can you see that? And I'm just going to right-click now to accept the Hatch. Or, maybe I shouldn't. Those lines look a bit too far apart, so if I press Escape it takes me back to the dialog box. I'm going to reduce that scale down to 35. Now when I click on the Preview button in the bottom left corner there you can see they're a little bit closer together, right-click to accept.