Fill Symbol Style Settings

Feature Description

In the fill symbol selector, you can view and select the style of the point symbols to be applied, and also adjust parameters such as color, transparency, and outline.

As shown below, the symbol library window (styles window) currently loads the fill symbol library.

Function Entries

  • Workspace Manager -> Resource node -> Fill Marker Symbol Library.
  • Polygon layer style panel -> Settings button.
  • Styles tab -> Fill Style group -> Fill Symbol drop-down list -> More Symbols option.

Operation Steps

  1. Select symbols: In the fill symbol selector, select the desired symbols.
  2. Set the display style of symbols:

    The preview area in the symbol library window's symbol style settings region allows you to preview the marker style set by the user.

    In the symbol library window's symbol style settings region, you can set the style used by the selected symbols, including the following aspects:

    Color: Set the color.

    • Foreground color: Set the color of the symbols' fill content. Click the drop-down button on its right, and users can select the default color in the pop-up color panel, or customize other colors.
    • Background: Set the color of the symbols' non-fill content. Click the drop-down button on its right, and users can select the default color in the pop-up color panel, or customize other colors.
    • Transparent background: After checking this checkbox, the non-fill content of symbols will be set to transparent, and the settings of Background will be invalid.
    • Transparency: Sets the transparency effect of the fill symbol. Users can enter a value in the number display box on its right to set it; or click the increase and decrease buttons on the right side of the number display box to adjust the transparency. The transparency value is any integer between 0 and 100, where 0 represents completely opaque and 100 represents completely transparent.

    Outline: Set the outline for the polygon layer.

    • Line style: Select the desired line symbol, or click the Custom button in the drop-down menu to select in the popped-up Line Symbol Selector window.
    • Line color: Set the color of the line symbol. Click the drop-down button on its right, and users can select the default color in the pop-up color panel, or customize other colors.
    • Line width: Set the thickness of the line. Users can enter a value in the number display box on its right to set it; or click the increase and decrease buttons on the right side of the number display box to adjust the line width.

    Gradient fill: After checking this checkbox, gradient colors will be used as the fill content of symbols. In this case, the fill content of symbols is color, meaning the symbols selected by the user in step 1 are invalid. In gradient fill mode, Foreground color and Background will be used as the two colors for the gradient, i.e., the gradient mode is two-color gradient, from the foreground color to the background color.

    Set the gradient method. Includes the following five methods:

    • No gradient: Do not use gradient colors as the fill content of symbols, but use the fill content of the symbols selected in step 1;
    • Linear: The gradient is linear;
    • Radial: The gradient is radial, from the center to the surroundings;
    • Conical: The gradient is conical;
    • Square: The gradient is square.

    Offset X: Set the offset X percentage of the gradient fill center point relative to the center point of the fill range. Users can enter a value in the number display box on its right to set it; or click the arrow on the right side of the number display box to adjust the value using the popped-up slider.

    Offset Y: Set the offset Y percentage of the gradient fill center point relative to the center point of the fill range. Users can enter a value in the number display box on its right to set it; or click the arrow on the right side of the number display box to adjust the value using the popped-up slider.

    Rotate: Set the rotation angle of the gradient fill.
  3. After setting is completed, click the OK button in the symbol library window to apply the parameters of the marker style.
Tip:
  • When setting the layer style for vector tile layers, only 3D symbols are supported.
Notes:

There are limitations in the fill marker style configuration of polygon layers:

  • For symbols that contain both symbol filling sublayers and pure filling sublayers, when "scale with map" is enabled, the symbol filling sublayers may be lost at large scales.
  • For symbols that contain symbol filling sublayers and have the "background" set, when "scale with map" is enabled, the entire symbols may be lost at large scales.
  • For symbols that contain both symbol filling sublayers and pure filling sublayers, the symbol filling sublayers may be lost in the Export to PDF results. It is recommended to use the "background" of symbols instead of the pure filling sublayer solution to resolve this.

Related Topics

Point Symbol Style Settings (Map and Layout)

Point Symbol Style Settings (Scene)

Line Symbol Style Settings