The controls available for how the colors are applied give you a wide range of creative choices. To learn more about what you can do with the HATCH, -HATCH, and FILLAREA commands, consult DraftSight Help:Ībout Creating Hatches, Fills and Gradients – 2023 – DraftSight Help () ConclusionĭraftSight makes it easy to fill areas in a drawing with one or two color gradients.
From the dialog box you can also change a Hatch entity to a Gradient, or a Gradient to a Hatch just by going from one tab to the other. You could also type the EDITHATCH command, which also works on Gradients. Or click on the entity, right-click, and select ‘Hatch Edit…’ from the context menu. Just double-click on it to return to the Hatch / Fill dialog box. You can edit an existing Gradient entity just like you can a Hatch entity. In such a case, how they’re handled can be controlled by clicking the ‘Additional Options…’ button and selecting between the ‘Out’, ‘In/Out’, and ‘Ignore’ display settings. Sometimes there will be internal regions within internal regions. Sometimes there will be internal regions you do not want to hatch or fill inside the boundary, as is the case with the island in the above example. For the island I also used a green to dark green two-color fill, with the option to have the darker color originate from the center. For the shoreline I used a green to dark green two-color fill at an angle of 180 degrees so the lighter green would contrast with the darker blue, and vice versa.
The lake itself is a blue to cyan two-color fill at an angle of 180 degrees, so the darker blue is on the right side of the lake instead of the left. Then I used the ‘Fill’ tab to create three different Gradient entities. I then used the SPLINE command to trace over the shoreline of a small lake, and what I like to call “Bird Island.” I used the OFFSET command on the larger Spline entity to create a shoreline area I could hatch or fill. To create the example above I took a screen capture of satellite imagery of a local park and pasted it into DraftSight. This can be especially nice for representing a body of water, such as a lake, pond, or swimming pool. The ‘Two color’ option allows you to select any two colors and create a blend between them, instead of the single-color dark to light gradient created by the ‘One color’ option. For example, you could make the gradient transition from lower left to upper right. By unchecking the ‘Symmetric’ box, a whole new set of selections become available. For example, you could choose inside out, instead of the default left to right. A pull-down tile selector gives you multiple choices of how the color gradient will be applied. Orientation controls let you change the angle, which changes which direction the gradient originates from. A slider lets you tweak the balance between light and dark. If you select the ‘One color’ option, the selected color will be darker on one side of the pattern and lighter on the other. The second tab is for creating color gradients. The selected area is filled in with a single color, usually the color of the layer the resulting Hatch entity is on. One of the available patterns is called ‘SOLID’, and it does exactly what you’d expect. A Hatch entity fills the selected area with a specified hatch pattern. The first tab is for creating hatches, including solid single-color fill.
It doesn’t really make a lot of difference which command you use, because you can switch from one tab to another whenever you like. HATCH takes you straight to the ‘Hatch’ tab, and FILLAREA takes you to the ‘Fill’ tab. The HATCH and FILLAREA commands launch the same dialog box with two tabs. Now we’ll turn our attention to the FILLAREA command. We’ve already covered using the HATCH command in a previous article. Creating color fills and gradients, like the below example, is just as easy.
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