Share Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn To Mark an Area for Hatching (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) Click Content Editor tabTools panelHatch drop-downCreate . Find In the drawing area, specify a point inside each area that you want hatched, and then press Enter. In the drawing area, place the icon in a position that you can easily associate with the areas you are marking. Related Concepts About Marking Areas to Be Hatched (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) Related Tasks To Remove an Island in a Hatched Area (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)To Create an Island in a Hatched Area (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)To Edit the Hatch Parameters of an Area Marked for Hatching (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)To Rename a Hatch Parameter (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)To Add a Hatch Parameter to a Family Table as a Column (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) Related Reference Commands for Authoring, Publishing and Distributing Content Libraries (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)