Hatch patterns

[surveyor6925]

In past versions of Microsurvey I've been able to add a hatch pattern or complete .pat file and have a box come up and show a preview of the patterns. In 2005 apparrently you have to make a .sld file for the preview. The question: How do you attach the sld file to the pat file? All I have now is empty preview boxes. The hatch files work, just no preview.
Any clues would be appreciated.

[John Gallagher]

Open a new drawing,draw a figure and hatch it with one of the files that show no preview.Then erase the boundary,but not the hatch pattern.
Then from the help file :
Saving and viewing snapshots
You can save snapshots of a drawing to view later. A snapshot saves the current drawing in either *.emf, *.wmf, or *.sld format exactly as it appears on the screen. A snapshot is not a drawing file. You cannot edit or print the snapshot; you can only view it.

You can use snapshots in the following ways:

Make presentations by showing snapshots of your drawings.
Reference a snapshot of a drawing while working on a different drawing.
Present a number of snapshots as a slide show by using scripts.
When you view a snapshot, it temporarily replaces the current drawing. When you refresh the display of the current drawing (by redrawing, panning, zooming, minimizing, maximizing, or tiling), the snapshot image disappears, and you are returned to the current drawing.

You create a snapshot by saving the current view as a snapshot. A snapshot does not include any entities on layers that are not currently visible. The contents of the snapshot also depend on the current drawing space. In model space, the snapshot shows only the current viewport. In paper space, the snapshot contains all visible viewports.

To create a snapshot
Display the drawing exactly as you want to capture it as a snapshot.
Choose Tools > Make Snapshot.
On the Tools toolbar, click the Make Snapshot tool ().
Type msnapshot, and then press Enter.
In the Create Snapshot dialog box, specify the name of the snapshot file you want to create.
From the Files Of Types list, choose either *.emf, *.wmf or *.sld.
Click Save.

The current drawing remains on the screen, and the snapshot is saved to the directory that you specify. You can view previously saved snapshots, and you can also view snapshots created using AutoCAD.

To view a snapshot
Do one of the following:
Choose Tools > View Snapshot.
On the Tools toolbar, click the View Snapshot tool ().
Type vsnapshot, and then press Enter.
In the View Snapshot dialog box, specify the name of the snapshot file you want to view.
Click Open.
IntelliCAD displays the snapshot in the current drawing window.

This should do it.
Hope this helps

[surveyor6925]

I have figured out how to make the snapshot. That was the easy part. What I have not figured out is how to make that snapshot appear in the boxes found under the pattern tab of the hatch dialoge box.

[John Gallagher]

Sorry,I should have also said to then save ths .sld file to the same folder as your hatch patters.