Adding hatching and gradients

When you add hatching or gradients to a drawing, progeCAD fills entities or enclosed areas with a pattern.         

Adding hatching or gradients is a four step process:

   1   Specify a hatch or gradient pattern.

   2   Specify entities or areas.

   3   Optionally specify island detection options.

    4    Specify additional options.

Hatch patterns and gradients are memory intensive. Because hatch and gradient patterns can take a considerable amount of time to draw and display, you may want to add hatching and gradients during the last steps of drawing creation or insert them on a separate layer that you can freeze as you continue to work on your drawing. For example, instead of using a small-scaled line pattern to create a solid fill, use the SOLID hatch pattern instead as this will print and display much faster.     

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Specifying a hatch or gradient pattern

Specifying entities or areas for hatching and gradients

Specifying islands and island detection

Specifying additional hatch and gradient options

1. Specifying a hatch or gradient pattern
2. Specifying entities or areas for hatching and gradients
3. Specifying islands and island detection
4. Specifying additional hatch and gradient options