12-09-2021, 02:53 PM
Hi,
So I'm not trying anything fancy to start with - I'm just trying to draw hatched boxes, using this method:
1. Choose Shapes menu.
2. Select Line type -> select Hatched, choose whether to draw the outline, select hatching style.
3. Click on the first shape (rectangle by two points).
4. Draw rectangle.
What I get is a solid filled rectangle in the default colour (black). Instinctively I went to the colour selector, hoping to find "No Color" (as you might find in other software) but that doesn't seem to be an option.
I probably doing something fundamentally wrong here, but it's not obvious to me. I checked the manual and although there is a hatched sectional drawing in the screenshots of some engineering part I don't think it tells you how to make the hatching. It does mention changing the line style of a circle to hatched - which I tried with similar results.
This is Version 10.0.0 on an old-ish iMac (running MacOS 10.13.6)
Thank you,
David.
So I'm not trying anything fancy to start with - I'm just trying to draw hatched boxes, using this method:
1. Choose Shapes menu.
2. Select Line type -> select Hatched, choose whether to draw the outline, select hatching style.
3. Click on the first shape (rectangle by two points).
4. Draw rectangle.
What I get is a solid filled rectangle in the default colour (black). Instinctively I went to the colour selector, hoping to find "No Color" (as you might find in other software) but that doesn't seem to be an option.
I probably doing something fundamentally wrong here, but it's not obvious to me. I checked the manual and although there is a hatched sectional drawing in the screenshots of some engineering part I don't think it tells you how to make the hatching. It does mention changing the line style of a circle to hatched - which I tried with similar results.
This is Version 10.0.0 on an old-ish iMac (running MacOS 10.13.6)
Thank you,
David.