What’s on the Hatching and Materials poster
A 6-row table: Material · Usual indication.
Conventions vary by office and country. Always include a key.
- Earth and ground — Irregular, unstructured hatch
- Concrete — Speckled, or diagonal with dots
- Masonry — Diagonal hatch, one direction
- Timber, cut across grain — Grain drawn, or cross hatch
- Insulation — Soft outline or hatched batt
- Steel — Solid black at small scale
At 1:100 a wall is one poche. At 1:5 every layer must be shown separately. Do not carry small-scale fills into details.
Questions about the Hatching and Materials poster
- What’s on the Hatching and Materials poster?
- A 6-row table: Material · Usual indication. Conventions vary by office and country. Always include a key. Earth and ground — Irregular, unstructured hatch; Concrete — Speckled, or diagonal with dots; Masonry — Diagonal hatch, one direction; Timber, cut across grain — Grain drawn, or cross hatch; Insulation — Soft outline or hatched batt; Steel — Solid black at small scale. At 1:100 a wall is one poche. At 1:5 every layer must be shown separately. Do not carry small-scale fills into details.
- Who is the Hatching and Materials poster for?
- Hatching and Materials belongs to the Architecture section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning representation can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Hatching and Materials poster?
- Use it when drawing up a section. Consistency matters more than any one convention. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Hatching and Materials belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Hatching and Materials?
- Annotation and Dimensions, Axonometric and CAD, BIM and the Model sit alongside Hatching and Materials in the Architecture section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Annotation and DimensionsAxonometricCAD, BIM and the Model
- Is the Hatching and Materials poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Hatching and Materials downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Architecture section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Hatching and Materials poster print at?
- Hatching and Materials is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Hatching and Materials loses nothing.Printing guide
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