Set Fill symbol style

Through the Symbol Style Settings area in the Fill Symbol Selector, you can perform Style Settings on the fill symbol, including the Fill Style of the fill area and the Line Style of the boundary of the fill area.

Symbol Style Settings area

Line Style Settings for Filled Area Boundaries

Sets the Line Style of the filled region boundary in the same way as the Line Style of a line object. In the Symbol Style Settings area, click the button on the right side of the Line Style "to pop up the Line Symbol Selector". In the Line Symbol Selector, set the Line Style. Click the OK button to apply the set Line Style to the boundary of the filled area.

For setting the Line Style in the Line Symbol Selector, see: Line TypeMarker Style .

Filled Style Settings for Filled Area

As for the Fill Style of the fill area, its setting can be divided into two cases:

  • No Gradient Fill: When the Gradient Fill method is not used, any fill symbol in the fill symbol list can be used as the Fill Style of the fill area. The settings in the Symbol Style Settings area are applied to the selected Fill symbol.
  • Gradient Fill: When Gradient Fill is selected as the Fill Style of the fill area, any fill symbol in the fill symbol list cannot be used as the Fill Style of the fill area. It can only be used as the Fill Style of the filled area by means of color gradient.

According to the above two situations, the following describes how to set the Fill Style and the function and usage of each item in the Symbol Style Settings area.

1. No Gradient Fill

In the Symbol Style Settings area, when the Gradient Fill "check box is not checked or the Gradient Fill" check box is checked but Gradient Mode is No Gradient, The Fill Mode of the filled area is No Gradient Fill. No Gradient Fill You can use any fill symbol in the Fill symbol list as the fill style.

First, select a Fill symbol in the Fill symbol list as the fill style. Thereafter, all Style Settings made in the Symbol Style Settings area will be applied to the Fill symbol. As shown in the following figure, select a Fill symbol, and take the Fill symbol as an example to illustrate the setting of Fill Style.

  • Set Fill Symbol Color: The color of the

    Fill symbol consists of two parts, the foreground color and the Background. Foreground color: refers to the color of Geometry constituting Fill symbol; Background: Refers to the color of other parts of the Fill symbol except the Geometry constituting the Fill symbol. The background of the Fill symbol can be understood as the canvas used to draw the Geometry in the Fill symbol. Background is the color of the canvas.

    In the

    Symbol Style Settings area, the color button on the right of the "Foreground Color" is used to set the foreground color of the Fill symbol. Click the color button to pop up the color panel, where you can select or set the desired color.

    In the

    Symbol Style Settings area, the color button on the right of "Background" is used to set the background of the Fill symbol. Click the color button to pop up the color panel, where you can select or set the required color. This only works if the "Background Transparency" checkbox is not checked.

    If

    the "Background Transparency" check box is checked, the background of the Fill symbol will be transparent, and the Background setting of the Fill symbol is invalid.

  • Set Fill symbol transparency:

    In that area of the fil Symbol Style Settings, the value of the transparency can be Sets the transparency effect of the fill symbol. Any integer between 0 and 100 by the term "transparency", 0 means completely opaque; 100 means completely transparent. When setting the transparency value, you can either directly enter the value in the value box, or click the arrow on the right side of the value box to pop up the slider, adjust the position of the slider, or click the zoom in or zoom out button to set the value.

2. Gradient Fill

In the Symbol Style Settings area, when the Gradient Fill "checkbox is checked and Gradient Mode is not No Gradient, the Fill Style of the fill area is Gradient Fill. Gradient Fill is used as a Fill Style by means of color gradient. In this case, when any Fill symbol is selected from the Fill symbol list, it cannot be used as a Fill Style, that is, the Fill Style of the Fill symbol is invalid.

Gradient Fill, the color of a filled area, is a color gradient composed of two colors, that is, from one color (start color) to another color (end color).

  • Set gradient color: In the

    Symbol Style Settings area, the color button on the right of "Foreground Color" is used to set the starting color of the gradient color. Click the color button to pop up the color panel, where you can select or set the desired color.

    In the

    Symbol Style Settings area, the color button on the right of "Background" is used to set the end color of the gradient color. Click the color button to pop up the color panel, where you can select or set the desired color. This item is valid only when the "Background Transparency" "checkbox is not checked.

    If

    the "Background Transparency" check box is checked, the ending color of the gradient color is transparent, that is, colorless.

  • Set Gradient Fill Type: In the

    Symbol Style Settings area, the Drop-down Button to the right of the Type in the Gradient Fill area is used to set the gradient mode. The drop-down list provides four gradient modes: linear, radial, conical, and square. The fill effects and descriptions of the four Gradient Fill Mode are shown below. In the Gradient Fill Mode diagram below, the center point of Gradient Fill coincides with the center point of the fill range, that is, Offset X: and Offset Y are 0, the fill range is a regular rectangular range, and the angle parameter value of Gradient Fill is also 0.

    Square

    takes the center point of Gradient Fill as the starting point and gradually changes from the starting color to the ending color. The color of the square centered on the starting point gradually changes from the starting color to the ending color with the increase of the side length.

    Conical

    Fades from the start bus to the end bus in both counterclockwise and clockwise directions, from the start color to the end color. The intersection point of the start and end buses (the apex of the cone) is the center point of the Gradient Fill. The start and end buses are on a horizontal line with an intersection angle of 180 degrees.

    Radial

    starts from the center point of Gradient Fill and gradually changes from the start color to the end color. The color of each circle centered at the start point gradually changes from the start color to the end color with the increase of the radius of the circle. The color does not change on the same circle, and the color changes gradually between different circles.

    Linear

    The color of a horizontal line segment changes uniformly from the start color to the end color from the start point to the end point. No color change occurs on a line perpendicular to the line segment.

  • Set gradient parameters:

    Offset X: Sets the Offset X: percentage of the center point of the Gradient Fill relative to the center point of the fill range. Offset X: When setting the value, you can either directly enter the value in the value box, or click the arrow on the right side of the value box to pop up the slider, adjust the position of the slider, or click the zoom in or zoom out button to set the value.

    Offset Y: Sets the Offset Y: percentage of the Gradient Fill center point relative to the center point of the fill area extents. Offset Y: When setting the value, you can either directly enter the value in the value box, or click the arrow on the right side of the value box to pop up the slider, adjust the position of the slider, or click the zoom in or zoom out button to set the value.

    Angle: Sets the direction of the color gradient for Gradient Fill. This parameter value primarily affects Linear, Square, and Conical, but not Radial. When setting the angle value, you can either directly enter the value in the value box, or click the arrow on the right side of the value box to pop up the slider, adjust the position of the slider, or click the zoom in or zoom out button to set the value. As shown in the following figure, after setting the angle to 20 degrees, the effect is compared with 0 degrees.

  • Set Fill symbol transparency:

    In that area of the fil Symbol Style Settings, the value of the transparency can be Sets the transparency effect of the fill symbol. Any integer between 0 and 100 by the term "transparency", 0 means completely opaque; 100 means completely transparent. When setting the transparency value, you can either directly enter the value in the value box, or click the arrow on the right side of the value box to pop up the slider, adjust the position of the slider, or click the zoom in or zoom out button to set the value.