-GRADIENT command

Fills closed areas with a gradient fill.

Description

Fills closed areas with solid fills in gradients of one or two colors in a variety of patterns.

Note: 3D entities cannot be filled in gradients.

Method

There are two methods to fill in gradients:

Single color
Two colors

Options within the command

hatch Properties: Allows to specify a hatch pattern.

?: Lists the names of all hatch patterns. Press F2 to see the list in the prompt history window.

Solid fill: Specify a solid-color filled hatch.

User defined: Allows you to customize the hatch pattern.

Angle for lines: Specify the angle for the pattern lines.

Space between standard pattern lines: Specify the space between the hatch lines.

Cross-hatch: The pattern is repeated at 90 degrees to the original.

Gradient: Allows to specify a gradient pattern.

angle for the gradient: Allows to specify an angle for the gradient fill.

Center the gradient: Centers the gradient.

?: Lists the names of all gradient patterns. Press F2 to see the list in the prompt history window.

Single color: Specify a new gradient color and tint.

shade or tint value: Specify a number between 0 and 1 (0 = dark, 1 = light).

COlorbook: Enter Color Book name.

Two color: Specify two new gradient colors.

Remove boundaries: Removes boundary entities.

Advanced options: Allows you to set advanced options for the hatch.

Boundary set: Specify the entities to consider while creating boundaries.

Retain boundary: Determine whether the temporary boundary is retained after the command ends.

Island detection: Toggle whether islands are hatched over or not. Islands represent interior boundaries.

Specify style: Specifies how islands are treated.

Nested: Alternating islands are hatched, beginning with the outermost one.

Outer: Only the outermost region is hatched. Interior islands are not hatched.

Ignore: Islands are ignored and hatched over.

set Associativity: Toggles whether hatches are associative, so they do update/not update their geometry alongside the boundaries.

boundary Tolerance: Specify the largest gap the program ignores when hatching a boundary that is not fully closed.; Note: A value of 0 means that no gaps in the boundary are tolerated by the program.

separate Hatches: Specifies to create separate hatches for each closed area or a single hatch entity for all.

Draw order: Specifies whether the hatch pattern appears visually above/below overlapping entities or its boundary.

Origin: Specify a new value for the hatch origin.

Annotative: Sets the annotative property for the hatch. It applies the current annotative scale, defined by CANNOSCALE system variable.

Layer: Specify the layer on which the hatch should be placed.

Transparency: Specify a value between 0 and 90 for the transparency.; Note: A value of 0 means fully opaque. The transparency level is limited to 90% to avoid confusion with layers that are frozen or turned off.

ByLayer: Applies the value of the transparency property of the layer on which the hatch resides.

ByBlock: The transparency value is controlled by block.

Use current: Applies the current transparency value as defined by the CETRANSPARENCY system variable.; Note: The transparency value for new hatches is saved by the HPTRANSPARENCY system variable.

Undo: Removes selected boundaries from the selection.