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October 19, 2009
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How to hatch diagonal lines in Illustrator

How to hatch diagonal lines in Illustrator?

I want to make a ground level indication, but I dont know how to do it.

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Mylenium
Legend
October 19, 2009

Apply a pattern fill. There are various of them included with AI. Just open the respective additional swatch library. To rotate them, use the rotate tool's panel dialog and chose to only transform the fill, not the object.

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joornAuthor
Participant
October 19, 2009

Thanks for the information. I am wondering which swatch library I have to use.. I cant find one that seems suitable for line hatches.

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Mylenium
Legend
October 19, 2009

Patterns --> Basic?! Works for me. If you need the hatching to be according to DIN, ISO or local construction rules, you may need to adjust it or build your own ones, though.

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