Note: For AutoCAD 2009 and earlier, the default hatch pattern location is:Ĭ:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\Support What you now have to do is to copy the pattern file into a path where AutoCAD looks for files to use, in this case the general AutoCAD “Support” file path.īrowse to the location where you saved the pattern file, right click on the file, cut the file and past it into the following locations for the different Window operating systems:Ĭ:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\Rxx.x\enu\SupportĬ:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 20xx\Rxx.x\enu\Support I downloaded the Spanish Tile Roofing pattern file onto the Desktop. įor this blog I went to the Dotsoft website and downloaded the Spanish Roof tile pattern. There are many other site on the internet and you will find them by simple doing a google search. A couple of site where you can download hatch pattern are: and. The new patterns are actually text based files with a file extension of. The first step to download these new hatch pattern files. A customer asked us how to load custom hatch patterns into AutoCAD as they see that you can download free ones from the internet.