I deal with creating overhead property plats and landscape plans in Designer X4. The problem I have is there aren't any good patterns to use for the architecture and landscape industry. I have dealt with PhotoShop in the past and how you could import .pat files that would tile nicely. I googled a bit but came up empty handed. Are there any other people out there who create vector style patterns for stones, bricks, grass etc? It would be nice to be able to fill an area with a stone pattern. I found some AutoCAD files but the filter type was not supported. If nothing else, I need to know what kind of vector pattern files are supported. The typical F1 help files weren't much help in this department. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks in advance.
Looking at my Designer 12 the .pat file can be "opened" in it. Not imported but opened. Try that on one of yours and see what you get. If you get what you want or can change it in the the screen you can save it in the symbols files.
That .pat file caught my interest here are some spots I found with more information about them. Also how other graphics programs deal with them.
http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=1832http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/pathttp://file-extension.paretologic.com/detail.php/File-Extension-pathttp://forums.adobe.com/message/2939920http://www.tutorialshock.com/tutorials/patterns-textures-pat-photoshop/
Steve E.
The *.pat extension is used for different purposes by different applications.
In this thread I think it's referring to the vector hatch pattern files that AutoCAD uses.
In Corel DESIGNER the hatch patterns are stored in XML files. You will find your custom hatches in a library file called "custom.xml" in the user profile (in Windows 7 under C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Corel\Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5\Custom Data\HATCH\ .
You can add your own hatch fill libraries in that folder so that they show up in the Hatch Fill dialog in Corel DESIGNER X5.
For converting a vector hatch .pat file into a Corel DESIGNER hatch fill library you would need to look at the hatch definitions with its individual object (curves/lines) definitions and transscribe them to the XML structure used in the Corel DESIGNER Hatch fill library file (compare the custom.xml file with a *.pat file in a text editor and you will see the differences in how those vector hatch fills are defined for the different applications).
Another way of getting existing hatch fills from CAD files into Corel DESIGNER is importing CAD files (DWG or DXF) with such hatch fills being used in vector objects. Corel DESIGNER maintains the hatch fills in the drawing file and you can then create a new library using those imported hatch fills (editing them to open the Hatch fill dialog with an imported hatch fill selected and then "Add To Library").
Make sure you have the rights to use the fills that way when you extract them from a CAD file!
HatchKit 4 can read, edit and write CorelDraw Technical Suite .XML vector fill hatch pattern files.
http://www.hatchkit.co,.au
hope this helps,
Hugh Adamson