Re: wood hatch

[Voith & Mactavish Architects <vma@voicenet.com>]

> WOOD WALL HATCH
> -Remember the old hand-drawn hatch for wood walls in plan?  It was a series of alternating 
> concentric curved lines, giving the impression of wood grain.  Is there a hatch pattern out there 
> similar to this.

This is a VERY difficult hatch pattern.  I struggled with it for 5-6 
hours before giving up.  The format for creating hatch patterns is 
not very conducive to arcs, especially "random" ones.  Evan Shu 
created a hatch pattern for wood that consists of randomly spaced 
parallel lines.  If you use this on a strage angle and use the 
freehand linetype, it can pass as wood grain.

John Cluver
Voith & Mactavish Architects
jcluver@vma1.com