!!TOP!! Download Sketchup Hatch Patterns
Kim Hinshaw
Like many others, I use standard hatch patterns for 2D drawings. They are built into SU but how is it best to get those same patterns into Layout? If I want a key to my patterns on a drawing, I have to be able to replicate the same pattern that you see in the SU viewport and at the same scale.
I expect you only use a couple or three different scales in your projects. It would be easy enough to make hatch pattern swatches that are appropriate sized for those scales so the swatches end up the right size in the LO viewport. Create a scene for each scale in the SketchUp model and then make a scrapbook item for each of those scales. A couple of minutes to set up but no screwing around later when you want to add one of those things to your project.
I would like to use some simple hatch patterns (materials) such as some of the traditional drafting hatches representing insulation, sand, concrete, earth, etc. Does anyone know of a source for hatches like that for Sketchup?
What did you end up doing to produce your desired outcome? I have tried hatchfaces myself but have encountered some annoying issues with surfaces being made non coplanar resulting in broken lines or the hatch not appearing at all.
It disappears. But I think I may have found the solution. There seems to be 2 sets of files. I think the hatch pack works fine but the hatch styles does not. Perhaps the style panel is superfluous.Very grateful for your input.
In an earlier discussion I suggested that a vector hatch option could be added to SketchUp materials, using the same kind of .pat files used by Autodesk and other CAD applications. Then a style setting could determine whether SketchUp would display the hatch pattern or colour/texture.
Contemplating this a little more, I would actually be content if there was a Standard set of hatch patterns of a really good quality - maybe a set with Landscape, Architecture and Engineering patterns, all High-res and with some customisation (colour, reverse, etc).
A Hatch is a symbolic pattern added to a drawing in order to help identify materials, objects, and spaces. They also help define section cut planes. Architects have been doing this for decades. Even before computer aided drafting they would draw in hatches by hand.
When using the section cut tool, the cutting plane would expose the back faces of everything being cut. There have been a few tricks people have used over the years in order to create hatches over their section cut plane.
Aidan Chopra told me on my podcast that the intention for using the pattern fill is to set up your Sketchup model like you normally would. Add a viewport of your model into Layout. Then, create another layer and use the various drawing tools in Layout to trace over your Sketchup model. You then apply patterns to the shapes you create in Layout.
In the Pattern Fill panel, you can select from a number of built in patterns. They are categorized into geometric tiles, material symbols, site patterns, and tonal patterns. You can also create your own tile images and add them to your library.
Trimble SketchUp software is accessible to everyone and facilitates the visualization of a project in a 3D environment. Various patterns can be downloaded to help combine colours and textures for each product. Download our hi-res seamless textures below to add details and realism to your models.
SketchUp LayOut serves as a powerful tool for creating presentations, detailed drawings, and documents in the realm of architectural and interior design. Within this software, hatch patterns play a crucial role in enhancing the visual representation and communication of designs.
Hatch patterns are essentially repetitive shapes or lines used to fill designated areas, providing texture and depth to surfaces. In SketchUp LayOut, these patterns aid in differentiating materials, indicating section cuts, or symbolizing specific elements within a design.
While SketchUp LayOut provides a range of default hatch patterns, users can create custom patterns to suit their specific design requirements. Adjusting scale, rotation, and density empowers designers to personalize patterns for optimal representation.
To maximize the impact of hatch patterns, adhering to best practices is essential. Consistency in usage, appropriate scaling, and ensuring clarity contribute significantly to the effectiveness of hatch patterns in SketchUp LayOut.
I have a client that prefers the live elevations to look more like the linework drawings he is used to. I have searched the forums and found how to create a texture file that is just linework, and I created one for a standing seam roof. That was pretty easy, just a few lines, but he other hatch patterns I want to use are all more complex. Has this been done already? If not, can someone suggest an easier way than using a paint program to edit an existing texture jpg and tracing the mortar lines (for brick or block) then erasing the old jpg? I use the existing texture file to keep it all in scale...
Thanks, Guys. LOVE what Joseph did, and I use that for my projects, but no matter how much I tweak the settings, the rendered textures never get to the point of looking like clean lines. I am trying to use a paint program to take the softplan hatch pattern and cut a sample down so it repeats cleanly on the building. I am having trouble getting it to repeat cleanly. any hints?
OK, I have block, block w/ mortar, brick, brick w/ mortar, and a standing seam metal roof. These are line work, black and white textures created to look like the paint patterns used if you were drawing a linework elevation. I will continue with some siding and roofing materials tomorrow and through the weekend, and I will post them when I'm done if anyone is interested. I feel this is something that softplan has always missed. The renderings look great, and are getting better all the time, but many of my clients and building departments still want "old school" black and white, clean line elevations in the plan sets. Saving out to a softplan drawing and then cleaning up and painting works fine, but keeping the elevation live with the model will be helpful, at least for me...
You do however need to save them as JPG's. The easiest way to do that is to make a box and fill it with a black hatch line pattern on a white background - if you don't normally draw on white edit a drawing specifically for the purpose - and take a screenshot of the resulting filled box and crop to suit the repeating pattern. Then save as a texture.
This full image is getting close to the look I am going for, a live elevation with hatch patterns as textures. My last(?) question involves the appearance of the textures. None of the options seem to change the contrast of the lines. I would like to be able to make the metal roof (for example) a bit lighter, and the shake siding a bit darker. I'd also like to make the brick black/gray. Is this possible?
I think I have a wood rain hatch pattern but I can't remember where I got it. I'll look tonight after I get home. I don't use it because I prefer to use images of real wood and adjust them to gray scale.
Rob, check out the Skalp plugin for SU available through extension warehouse. Its all about hatching, even scaled and user edits. You can make your own. I bought it awhile ago but am not sold on it. Seems a bit quirky. Anyone else have experience with this plugin?
The only way I can actually get the floor texture to turn 45 in Enscape is to rotate my entire floor in Revit. I tried this on a dummy floor to test it, but I'd rather not have to use this hack on my all my floors because it means having to go back to "repair" various floor-wall connections, cut-patterns, and the like. Plus it just doesn't seem like that's they way it's supposed to work.
AP, I tried that after your suggestion, but no difference. While it did change the orientation of the hatch pattern, it didn't actually didn't affect even the texture as it appears in Revit under Realistic settings (and also had no effect on Enscape).
When I changed the texture to one that definitely was PBR, things started working the way they're supposed to: I didn't need to rotate the texture; instead, by using the align tool to angle the hatch pattern, the texture followed accordingly.
How do you get the sketchup files to import. I downloaded them, but then they show up as skm files and wont let me import. Alli work with is techo-bloc so it would be nice to have them in chief, otherwise im using realtime landscape architect
Last time I downloaded them, the textures were just .jpgs ? unfortunately you have to get the Hatch patterns separately and add them to the Material you are using in Chief as Chief doesn't have TechnoBloc as a Chief Library yet.
This kinda works, but it seems in Rhino 5 this can be done within creating the section. Further. MatchProperties does not seem to work. I changed one solid section hatch to what I wanted. Then tried MatchProperties to make them the same. Nothing changed.
There was a bug introduced in V6 and is now fixed. Will release new SectionTools this week that fixes it. In summary, V6 only loads Solid Hatch Pattern by default, so if a pattern has not been loaded before (using Hatch command), SectionTools will not find it. The fix loads default patterns even if Hatch was not ran.
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