How BEST to Apply Hatch Patterns for LayOut 

Wow, thanks Eric you have no idea how long I've been trying to achieve this for some of my layouts plans without success. This is so simple I can't beleive how easy you made it.

I was looking for your garage remodel to learn about color-by-tag. Couldn't find that one but here you go again! Many thanks!👍

This only works in MAC users... Windows users doesn't have this option of textures on Tags (Pro 2021)

hatch on a section fill, thats what i needed most

I am old school and still draw a 2d plan for every project and then I build the model over the 2d plan. So it's easy for me to apply hatches. All hatches should be done in SketchUp so when you move or scale the plan in Layout, there is no weirdness.

The problem is that textures in Sketchup are raster and not vector. So they always look low quality. When will Sketchup add support for .svg or .eps as an image type?

layOut is great when you know how to use it. i hatch by tag like you did. what i like the most about layout is axonometrique diagrammes using multiple sketchup file

Thanks Eric, I am trying to achieve "color by tag" trick on Windows computer... and when trying to edit color it doesn't work. is it System related?

I believe this process for replacing the tag color with a material is different on a PC, rather than a Mac?

You are right to attempt to apply hatches to surfaces in SU. However, I've never found textures via SU to be good for CAD quality hatch. The quality of a raster image is not great or easily modified. LO needs a "flood" tool to flood a surface with a pattern, or a method to recognize and apply a LO pattern to a SU surface. Hatches need to be scalable, with adjustable lineweight, origin, rotation, and color for acceptable CAD graphics. And they need to export as crisp vector images. Hatches need to be easily sampled and applied to other objects (surfaces) in the drawing. LO also needs to provide standard CAD hatches as well as a ways to create hatches from linework, or even raster images. I can easily make a pattern of (for example) an image of tile from the internet, and apply it in CAD, being much more easily manipulated, looking way better, and working way faster than SU.

This is a really good one, thanks 🙏

Is this feature only available on MAC? When I click on the tab colour it doesn't seem to have an option to apply hatch, only texture. I coukd probably find a texture which has a hatch pattern, but I can not acces the material folder the way you do. Or am I missing something? Thank you.

Really helpfull Eric.🙌

Scale is always good to apply. Good for when you forward your documents. It provides a standard for the engineers & other project teams to work with. For a reflected ceiling plan, apply hatches in layout would be easier tho, right? I know sometimes engineers ask for those.

Very cool, very useful. Thanks for share.

i also use fog in skechup to make the hatch fad a litlle bit and sometimes i use plan with a good amount of opacity to have the same effect.

It might be nice if there is a way for SU to save applied materials with scenes or maybe a way to switch between multiple material sets. Thanks Eric!

I have PC as well. I managed to come with a hatch solution up until the SKP part, by creating a hatch from a third party web app and selecting the image in the TAG section. I worked. However, once in Layout, when I render the scene, it doesn´t reveal the image, thus the hatch. To test, instead of the image, I set a color to the TAG anda it workded..Figuring out why it doens´t with the image..

Is this only for MAC users? I try this, I cant find it on Windows.

How would you do this in Windows

I am so depressed...I have a PC and all so this doesn't work...

Hi! how to make a visible line for v-ray with monochromatic planes sketchup

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Genious! Thanks a lot!