How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
Hello
Please excuse the basic question but...
...how can I fill a shape with diagonal lines?
Background
I am trying to prepare some engineering drawings, using Xara Designer Pro X10, and I need to fill various shapes with diagonal cross-hatch lines.
hanks
J
Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
On Designer Pro X16, there are diagonal fill patterns under the fill gallery. Have a look under "Two color shading". I am pretty sure these should also be in X10 - look specifically for crossh2 onwards.
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Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
Vector or bitmap?
I would create a tiling repeating pattern then apply it as a fill.
I have attached a bitmap, 300dpi that you can set to Repeating Tile, copy then Paste Attributes.
Once you have applied the fill you can make it larger or smaller using the Fill Tool.
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Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
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shiphen
Hello
Please excuse the basic question but...
...how can I fill a shape with diagonal lines?
Background
I am trying to prepare some engineering drawings, using Xara Designer Pro X10, and I need to fill various shapes with diagonal cross-hatch lines.
hanks
J
I would give the shapes a Flat, repeating 45° Fill with (0.75, 1) Profile. Clone, change the Fill to -45°and add a 50% Flat transparency.
There is a Crossh1, two-colour shading texture available.
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Acorn
Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
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Acorn
I would give the shapes a Flat, repeating 45° Fill with (0.75, 1) Profile. Clone, change the Fill to -45°and add a 50% Flat transparency.
There is a Crossh1, two-colour shading texture available.
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Acorn
I like that answer Acorn. I have been experimenting with the fills from the fill gallery but they are bitmaps and I think your method is much better and controllable.
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Another option...
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Marco
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Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
Hi Shiphen,
I made you a set of grid lines and then a grid of individual 'diamond' shapes; done in a CAD program so they are all vector.
Hope this helps. Happy Holidays.<:)
(XDProX12 file and zipped ai file)
Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
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Marco D
Marco, great minds!
Acorn
Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
draw a line - set your duplication parameters and duplicate as necessary; vary the parameters on the fly if required - group and clipview afterwards to shape
PS - you can of course duplicate groups of lines too... and rotate first
Re: How can I fill a shape with diagonal lines? (i.e. cross-hatching lines)
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handrawn
draw a line - set your duplication parameters and duplicate as necessary; vary the parameters on the fly if required - group and clipview afterwards to shape...
I like this option because the distance between each hatched line can be defined consistently.
