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If you draw a straight line by holding down the Shift key, and used Free Transform to rotate it 45° (or your angle of choice) you could then define it as a Brush Preset (Edit > Define Brush preset). You could then daw a cross hatch pattern by adjusting the brush spacing.
This is with spacing set to 5%
If you crop the cross hatch above with a perfect square (holding down shift again) you can define it as a pattern.
It's important that one of the diagonal lines is exactly at the corners wh
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I used the line drawing tool and made the stroke bigger. Everyone presses and holds a shift to make straight lines, when using a brush.
Using the click and shift method draw a line at any angle, but it might not be 45 degrees.
I might make a set a brushes based upon the diagonal lines you see below.
If you draw a straight line by holding down the Shift key, and used Free Transform to rotate it 45° (or your angle of choice) you could then define it as a Brush Preset (Edit > Define Brush preset). You could then daw a cross hatch pattern by adjusting the brush spacing.
This is with spacing set to 5%
If you crop the cross hatch above with a perfect square (holding down shift again) you can define it as a pattern.
It's important that one of the diagonal lines is exactly at the corners when cropping.
It's difficult to do this with crop tool directly, but if you drag out a rectangular selection, it is much easier to be more accurate. With that selection in place, go Image > Crop and it will crop to the selection
Go Edit > Define Pattern and you can use this going forward.
BTW you can test your pattern before defining it by using View > Pattern Preview.
A way to be more accurate when defining the pattern is to turn on the Grid and zoom well in.
You can then nudge the diagonal lines layer with the cursor keys to exactly intersect the grid.
If Snap is turned on, it is easy to make a perfect selection to crop to.
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