Thanks for all your replies. zxys001 Yeah, that's the way I've always done them, but with this recent project and the size of the grilles it's gone beyond the limits of what I can do manually, especially at the concept stage SPerman Thanks, I will look into this as I have never used tables at all in...

Thanks AlexLachance That is actually quite a nice method. I just tried it and it killed my PC so will try again later when I have less programmes open. Yeah fill pattern is great for many circumstances, but I'm designing car grilles at the moment and it just wont cut it when you compare to competito...

Sorry for the delay. I always forget you don't get email notifications on this forum Thanks for the replies so far. AlexLachance - I don't think the fill tool is capable of any of those patterns unfortunately. Fill tool is quite a blunt tool (unless I am missing something?) MattW Could be curve and ...

Hello! I am a Solidworks user, and I have done various hole patterns in the past, but it is slow and painstaking if it is anything beyond a fairly standard pattern. What programmes / what methods do people use to create complex patterns? Examples below: 407a6fa75b7c28afa295c337484bb26c.jpg 20230302_...

Thanks Jason. Out of interest, how do the DXF files you receive show depth? I never use DXF or DWG in the day job. The only things I send are Step files and fully dimensioned engineering drawings in PDF format. DXF and DWG I have only really used to take information from Solidworks into Illustrator....

Sorry only just seen this. I thought I would get an email notification when I got a reply! Thanks for the reply. That seems to work fairly well. Definitely easier than taking into another programme afterwards. Although annoyingly I can't seem to find where the sketch lives when I do it directly over...

Hello, First post on this forum, hoping I do this all correctly! I would like to know if there is a way of colouring line entities on a 2D drawing and adding these coloured lines to layers. I am making a built in wardrobe and the CNC vendor requires each cut depth to be a different colour and on a d...