Re: wood hatch

[Carl Steidel <CarlJSteidel@worldnet.att.net>]

At 12:47 PM 7/29/96 +00 00, you wrote:
>> 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

John there's a couple wood hatch LINETYPES in Madura Studios productivity
pack.  Haven't used them yet since I haven't installed 7.0x at work, but
testing em out here at home they look fairly handy.
Carl Steidel