Templot Club Archive 2007-2020
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posted: 17 Nov 2007 03:00 from: Peter Ayre click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Is there any way to a hatched object in background shapes that is a quadrilateral? I need to show a baseboard that is set at about 45 degrees diagonal to the others. I may look to also need some little triangle fillets. I know I could show it as brightly coloured lines but a hatched object shows up better on top of the drawing I've scanned in. I have tried the modify by X degrees in the background shapes editor and tried lots of other settings but nothing works. I have also checked the companion files and I know there may be an obvious answer, but I can't find it. I'm still using 0.82d, so maybe this is possible in 0.91b. If so I'll upgrade to 0.91b Cheers. Peter |
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posted: 17 Nov 2007 03:50 from: Martin Wynne
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Peter Ayre wrote: Is there any way to a hatched object in background shapes that is a quadrilateral?Hi Peter, Sorry, no it's not possible. Only closed objects can be hatched, and the only closed objects available in the background shapes are circles/ellipses and squares/rectangles square to the grid. The background shapes functions are really quite primitive and not intended to be a full mini-CAD system. One way to represent other shapes is to use dummy templates with shoved timbers, like this: hatched_timbers.png  Bear in mind that the timber infill style must be changed to hatched separately for the pad on the screen and for the printed output, and it applies to all the timbers, including those in the track. However, you can have different templates in different colours, using the marker colour and mapping colour settings. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 17 Nov 2007 12:16 from: Peter Ayre click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Martin, Thanks for that, a nice bit of lateral thinking. Also a good idea to use them to represent the footprints of buildings, as you can attach, group, rotate, etc. Thanks again. Regards, Peter |
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