Fill Styles

Fill Styles are used whenever it is required to hatch an area on a drawing. This hatched area may either be part of the annotation (a hatched OUTLine element for example) or may be produced by the auto-hatching capability of the Update Design process.

A pre-defined set of fill styles (including solid-fill) is provided; it is also possible for you to define your own. A fill style is defined by combining 1 or more hatch patterns. A hatch pattern is a sequence of parallel lines all drawn with a particular line style (chained, solidthick, ) and at a specified angle and separation. By the careful design of hatch patterns and line styles complicated fill styles (such as those typically used to denote brickwork, concrete, grassland, ) can be created.