Setting Hatching Style Attributes

There are three sets of gadgets in the lower part of the form which allow you to modify the attribute settings for the current HSTYL.

Hatching Pattern Colour and Style

1. For the Hatch Pattern you can assign a colour and either a Standard fillstyle (which may be ‘Off’) or a User-defined fillstyle.

2. The Colour can either be selected from a drop-down list (initially populated with the basic 16 system-defined colours) or picked from a colour-palette shown when the Pick button is clicked. The colour selector gadgets will be greyed out if the fillstyle is ‘Off’.

3. The Standard fillstyle is selected from the drop-down list gadget. A total of 18 standard system-defined fillstyles are provided as well as ‘Off’ and ‘Solid Fill’.

4. If a User-defined fillstyle is required click Select.

   This will cause the Standard style gadget to be greyed out and the User-defined Fill Styles selection form to be displayed as shown below. The left-hand side of the form lists all the Fillstyle Tables found in the MDB.

5. Selecting one of these Fillstyle tables causes the right-hand side to be populated with the Table’s Fillstyles from which a selection can be made.

6. Once a User-defined style is selected, the checkbox can be used to toggle between the standard style and the User-defined style.

   

Outline Colour and Style

• For this line type you can assign a colour and either a Standard linestyle (which may be ‘Off’) or a User-defined linestyle.

  Refer to Setting Style Attributes for an explanation of the gadgets.

  If an Outline is used, then each surface hatched will be outlined in the specific style.

Pipe Symbols

The choices are ON or OFF. Choosing ON will hatch the cross-section of a pipe or HVAC duct with a piping end symbol or ducting end symbol. OFF will hatch the full cross-section of the pipe or duct.