Used at the Drawing and Cad drawing libraries to add colour or shading
At any drawing:-
● Select: Tools - Fill point
or
Select
the Toolbar option
● Place the fill point in the area
● Select the fill point with the mouse
● Select properties
● Adjust the position of the point
To add the Colour or Pattern use the Fill point properties.
● Double click on the fill point
The program displays a Properties dialog
● Set the Fill type (None, Colour, Pattern)
For colour or pattern select the actual colour or pattern from a palette style dialog. For patterns choose from several different 'hatch' patterns. Also set the Line colour and Background colour. The diagram shows the fill colour or pattern.
Notes
- When adding objects the fill is not shown until after the object has been added. When a drawing object is manipulated (e.g. moved) the fills are only redrawn after the manipulation has finished. If two or more fill points are positioned in the same area then the first (in order of addition to the drawing) visible one takes priority. Shapes are filled in the order that they are added to the drawing. If a circle is added first and then an ellipse, the ellipse fill will be on top of the circle fill. The flood fills occur when all other objects have been drawn. Fill points do not have any snap points and do not snap to any other objects. Fill points can be moved, copied and deleted, but cannot be rotated (unless part of a multiple selection) or edited (the rotate and edit options are disabled when a single fill point is selected).
- Shape fill - Circles, ellipses and rectangles have a Fill selection control on their properties dialog. The object is filled with the selected fill - this can be 'none' for a transparent object. You do not need a fill point for these shapes.
Edit
options and Properties -
right click with the mouse
to show the menu of edit options and properties. These vary for each type
of drawing object. The property values can be used to set start point,
end point, length, thickness ... of each object accurately.
