AutoCAD 2010

[bob]

Yes, thanks to the brilliant minds at AutoDESK they've changed the pattern rules once again. (Note a little bit of sarcasm in my post???)

The good news is the patterns look to work with AutoCAD 2010 without any problems.  The bad news is they need to be manually installed from StoneCAD 5.  The Autoinstall feature is broken. I've tested both 32 and 64 bit versions of AutoCAD 2010 in both XP (sp 3) and Vista 64 bit OS.  All looks to be stable and functional.  Here's the secret:

Install the pattens using the manual install routine from StoneCAD into the following directory:

\Program Files\AutoCAD 2010\Support

For single users that should normally be found from the root of your C:\ drive. If you have a network install of AutoCAD your 'Program Files' directory may be located somewhere else.  

Once the .pat files are in that location all the old tricks still work.  From the 'bhatch' window select 'Custom' then click on the 'Swatch' icon and just like magic you should now see all your StoneCAD patterns in the list.