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How do i crate a shaded area?

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:34 am
by Azz131
Just doing a simple drawings with rectangles but i want it shaded in with different colours..

Anybody give me some tips on how to do it ?

Thanks

Re: How do i crate a shaded area?

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:08 pm
by Husky
Hi,

if we are really talking about a shade - a CAD program isn't build to do something like that.

But if you can live with hatches - that will work in many kinds of pattern or also in many different solid colors.

Re: How do i crate a shaded area?

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:37 pm
by Clive
Husky is correct, this is the case currently for QCAD but you can achieve gradient fills in some CAD packages.
This would make for a fantastic feature request... 8) ...for QCAD too.

A Gradient tab could be added to the hatch dialog window and maybe offer one or two colours, then simply adjust a shade/tint slide. Already we use something similar when setting our background colour etc. in the user preferences so maybe something can be done for this in QCAD too :wink: .

@andrew - what do you think? this would be such a bonus for making a very good 2D presentation drawing in QCAD.

Re: How do i crate a shaded area?

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:45 pm
by andrew
Yes, as far as I know gradients are supported in DXF / DWG for hatches, so if there is a demand for that, why not? ;)

Re: How do i crate a shaded area?

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:05 pm
by Clive
andrew wrote:Yes, as far as I know gradients are supported in DXF / DWG for hatches, so if there is a demand for that, why not? ;)
Excellent, yes please,I for one would want this - how useful this would be :wink: