T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Fundamentals. Two-Dimensional Design
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In the opened document, create the image of a hatch pattern as shown on the figure. Make sure to put an
additional node on the drawing, named “Center”, which must be present on a hatch pattern.
The drawing created in this way can already be identified by the system as a custom hatch template. All that
needs to be done is saving the file in the folder …\Program\HatchPatterns (for example, under the
name “Custom hatch sample.grb”) and restart T-FLEX CAD.
However, since no direction nodes are defined in the pattern, an actual hatch created from this pattern will
contain just a single instance of the hatch.
To make the sample defined in the hatch pattern repeat in one direction, you would need to create the
respective named node in the pattern, as, for example, “StepX”. The position and step of the node will define
the step and repetition direction of the pattern sample.
Two named nodes – “StepX” and “StepY” − would allow defining repetition of the pattern sample in both
directions. By varying the position of the direction nodes with respect to the “Center” node, one can obtain
various hatch appearances all based on the same pattern.