topic Re: Fill Scale in Modeling

Fill Scale

Llian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:57:22 GMT

Is there anyways that I can rescale a fill type, say diagonal lines, without having to re-create a duplicate ?

Re: Fill Scale

MMontgomery — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:16:19 GMT

You can use the 'Distorted Fill' construction method handles on the fill tool and resize the scale of the fill pattern with them. Change the length of each handle equally to keep from skewing the pattern. It's not a perfect solution, but it works.

Re: Fill Scale

Llian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:21:18 GMT

Thanks...will try it out later..
Meanwhile, I am just wondering what is the reasoning for not having a scale factor in the fill tool?

Re: Fill Scale

Barry Kelly — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:53:32 GMT

When you create the fill you have a choice of making it either a fixed printer size (regardless of the scale it will always print at the same spacing on paper) or scaled so that it adjusts with your scale and will always appear to be the same dimensional spacing (great for when you want to represent the actual size of a hatched element like 200x200 tiling).

You can either creat new fills as the needs arise or edit the existing fills but be aware all instances of that fill will be affected.

Or if you want to adjust just the odd fill here or there you can use the distorted fill handles that MMontgomery mentioned.
A handle that is 1000mm long (1 metre) will be one unit size of your fill hatch spacing.
Stretch the handle to 2 metres and the spacing will be twice as big.

I'm not sure what the unit size will be for those of you using Imperial measurements.

Barry.

Re: Fill Scale

David Maudlin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:07:51 GMT

Barry wrote:
I'm not sure what the unit size will be for those of you using Imperial measurements.

The ever useful 3'-3 3/8". Also shows up in the Parallel Projection Settings dialog box.

David