I'll hit Escape to get out of the command.

And we can see that the overall length of the pool is about 34 foot two inches. In this case I'll choose the midpoint here and the midpoint here. From here I can click any points that I want. I want to use two quadrant points, so I'm going to go up to Tools, Inquiry, and Distance. Now I need to know the overall length of my pool. I also want to change the angle to Decimal Degrees with a precision of two decimal places, and then click OK. And I want to change my units from Decimal to Architectural. First, I'm going to go up to Format, and then come down to Units. To that end, AutoCAD for Mac has a number of measuring tools that allow us to find things like distance, angles, or areas of our geometry. Pick Add and then browse to the new path to add it to the list.ģ) If all is setup correctly you will see your Hatch Patterns after choosing the Custom Tab located in the Hatch Pattern dialog.- For all of the information that we give AutoCAD to create our geometry, there are many times where we need to get information back out of our drawing. Choose Tools then Options to access the File Search Path dialog. This can be a subfolder under support called Hatch (~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/roaming/AutoCAD 2011/R18.1/enu/Support/Hatch'Ģ) As in Windows you will also need to add a path within your AutoCAD Preferences dialog. (see below) Please follow these steps below to install the 365 Hatch Pattern Library:ġ) Create a new folder on your Mac for your 365 Hatch Pattern Library. Please follow these steps below to install the Wood and Stone Library:ġ) If you have a acad.pat file from your Windows version of AutoCAD it is recommend to make a backup of it before starting.Ģ) Next browse to '~/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/roaming/AutoCAD 2011/R18.1/enu/Support/'ģ) Locate the Mac acad.pat file and to rename it to acad-pat.old.Ĥ) Copy the original hatch pattern file from step 1 above into the Mac folder in step 2You can also use our 365 Hatch Patterns with your existing hatch patterns for the Mac.

ibraries will install on the Mac - Please note: you will not have a pull down - instead you will have thumbnails accessible within the Hatch dialog itself.Feel free to contact us for more info about our popular hatch library add-ons which contain additional patterns for AutoCAD. If you are using AutoCAD for the Mac OSX you can also install our custom Wood and Stone hatch patterns.

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