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    Default How to create a crosshatch pattern

    I'm new to this. I have a rectangle with a fill color. I want to overlay onto this fill color a crosshatch pattern in grey.

    How do I do this?

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    Default Re: How to create a crosshatch pattern

    Create your rectangle.

    Select Fill Gallery

    Open the folder Tow Color Patterns

    Select the appropriate fill

    With your object selected click on the Fill button

    Now select the Fill Tool to change the colors of the line and background.

    Hope this helps.

    Danny
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    Default Re: How to create a crosshatch pattern

    Well I thought that earlier. However, I don't have a Tow Folder in the Fill Gallery that might contain just a simple pattern.

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    Default Re: How to create a crosshatch pattern

    Hi
    Is this what you mean by a cross hatch fill?
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    Default Re: How to create a crosshatch pattern

    Yes. That's it, but in a 90 degree version.

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    Default Re: How to create a crosshatch pattern

    PMH,
    Actually it's not TOW, but Two Color Pattern under Fill Galery. They will show up in black and white, but you can change the black and white to any color you want.
    ron

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    Default Re: How to create a crosshatch pattern

    Quote Originally Posted by PMH View Post
    I'm new to this. I have a rectangle with a fill color. I want to overlay onto this fill color a crosshatch pattern in grey.

    How do I do this?
    Well I do this all the time.

    The way I do it, I take a micropoint pen, hand-draw a cross hatch pattern (I usually want it to look hand-drawn), scan it, save it as a JPG.

    Then in Xara I select my shape with a color fill, copy the shape, import the scanned hand-drawn hatch, apply it as an image fill (sometimes applying repeating image), then apply stained-glass transparency - and voila you now have a shape in color, with cross hatch on top.

    Attached is an example of a local scale map of a stream or river that uses both hand-drawn linework and Xara created color shapes... (in this case the entire map is a hand-drawn, scanned, stained-glass layer on top of the color filled shapes below it, but same process, same result.)

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