Hatches and Solid Fills
CAD Toolbar:

Menu:
Draw - Hatch
Command:
?
Description:
Fills an area surrounded by existing entities with a hatch pattern or
a solid color.
Procedure:
- Prepare the entities that surround the hatching area so they
form a closed contour. The contour must be closed in a way that one
entity is connected to the next one as shown in the right sketch of
Figure 49.

Figure 49: Preparation for
the boundary entities.
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Launch the hatching action.
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Select the contour(s) you want to fill. Note that islands inside contours
will get hatched if they are not selected (Figure 50)

Figure 50: Islands which are
selected won't get hatched through (right).
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Click the right arrow button in the CAD toolbar to continue.
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A dialog for the hatch options is displayed (Figure 51).
Choose a hatch pattern, scale factor and a rotation angle of the pattern.
If you want to fill the object with a solid color instead of a pattern,
check the checkbox "Solid Fill".
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Click 'OK' to proceed with the hatching. Depending on the complexity of
the contour and the scale factor of the chosen pattern, it might take a
while to create the pattern.

Figure 51: Hatch
pattern selection.
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