Solid fill (HATCH) color

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Krischu
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Solid fill (HATCH) color

Post by Krischu » Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:03 pm

I'm stumbling across the following: I have some circles I want to fill with different colors.

There doesn't seem to be a way to modify the white square which is shown in the solid hatch dialog, although I would find it very
intuitive, if one could right click on the (quite huge) white square and get a color chooser. Or even better, if the color chooser would appear right away.

Instead I read somewhere that the solid fill color is taken from the color of the layer the item is in. Huh? WOuld I have to create 10 layers if I want 10 circles with 10 different colors?

Or am I overlooking the obvious?

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Ah, yes: QCAD Pro 3.25.2.0
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Re: Solid fill (HATCH) color

Post by andrew » Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:13 pm

Like all other entities, hatches and solid fills inherit their color by layer by default.

Of course you can set the color to any fixed color using the property editor or by upfront changing the current color using the Pen toolbar (View > Toolbars and Widgets > Toolbars > Pen).

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Re: Solid fill (HATCH) color

Post by Krischu » Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:09 pm

Thanks. I managed that to work.

Given a circle already exists (color white).
I define a new color from the chooser, that then is assigned to the the "Custom" in the color property (property editor)
When I want to choose that color in the pen toolbox widget it is not listed. How can I now choose exactly that color for the solid hatch?
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Re: Solid fill (HATCH) color

Post by andrew » Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:03 pm

You'd first select the circle(s) and hatch(es), then set its / their color using the property editor.

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