Create new layers, so that you can turn them on and off whenever you need to. Just allows you to see the wood for the trees and I can't stress that enough with layers in AutoCAD. And the reason you put your hatching on a separate layer, it allows you to freeze it, turn it off, work on some geometry, and then perhaps put it back into the drawing again. So on the layer drop down here, make sure you're using A hatching.
Then what we're going to do is we're going to make sure that we're on the A hatching layer. You want them nice and big like that so that you can see what's going on with your hatching and your gradients. So they're just down here, so let's get those nice and central on the screen, first, using a bit of zooming and panning like so. And what we're going to zoon into is the conference tables that we created, in the bottom, left board room of the building. You will recognize the drawing, it's the floor plan of the office that we used in the previous chapter.
It's called HatchingGradients.dwg and you can download it from the library to follow along with the videos as per usual. We're starting a new chapter now in our course and we're looking at hatching and gradients in our AutoCAD drawings.
