AutoCAD Tips & Tricks for Creating Complex Boundaries with AutoCAD and 2D Hand Rendering Styling

January 21st, 2010

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I was doing some planning work for a new pond in my backyard and thought I would share a cool AutoCAD tip.

When drawing a 2D layout drawing of my yard’s landscaping I was presented with the problem of duplicating the flowerbeds border with the grass regions. Instead of copying and drawing outlines which could cause problems with the splines I used for the curved shapes, I used the trick of creating a new boundary polyline with a Hatch. Below is a tutorial on how you can do the same trick and as a bonus showed my design styled in Autodesk Impression.

So in this image you see the 6 regions I want defined for a polyline on a separate layer, but the boundaries of these objects is not drawn yet.

AutoCAD Showing the 6 Grass Regions - AutoCAD Tips & Tricks for Creating Complex Boundaries with AutoCAD and 2D Hand Rendering Styling

What I did was hatched the 6 regions I wanted to create a boundary for using the AutoCAD command BHATCH.

Hatch and Gradient - AutoCAD Tips & Tricks for Creating Complex Boundaries with AutoCAD and 2D Hand Rendering Styling

AutoCAD Hatch object of the 6 Grass Regions - AutoCAD Tips & Tricks for Creating Complex Boundaries with AutoCAD and 2D Hand Rendering Styling

I then double-clicked on the new Hatch which brings up the Hatch Edit dialog. I then selected the option to “Recreate Boundary” then accepted the default option to create a Polyline and boundary not Reassociate the Hatch to the new boundary.