QCad User Reference Manual
|  |  | ## 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. Launch the hatching action. 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). Click the right arrow button in the CAD toolbar to continue. 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". 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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