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Filling a Polygon
You can change the default fill color and pattern assigned to polygons. For
color, you can choose from a variety of colors including true colors and colors
from imported color books. For fill pattern, you can select a predefined hatch
pattern, define your own hatch pattern, choose a solid color, or define a one-
or two-color gradient fill.
To style polygons to use one color for the fill and a different color for the
outline, create a Display Manager layer for the polygons. For that layer, create
both a hatch style and an entity style. The hatch style will control the polygon
fill; the entity style will control the polygon outline. However, the entity style
must appear above the hatch style in Display Manager for the polygon to
appear correctly in the drawing.
See also:
■
Creating Polygon Objects (page 960)
■ Setting Polygon Options (page 977)
■ Overview of Polygons (page 955)
NOTE This procedure is for drawing objects only. For information about editing
polygonal geospatial feature data, see
To edit a feature using feature editing
commands
(page 705).
■ To add boundaries (page 963)
■ To delete boundaries (page 964)
■ To move boundaries (page 964)
■ To edit nodes on a boundary (page 965)
■ To change the boundary type (page 965)
■ To rebalance the polygon object (page 965)
■ To edit the fill property for the polygon object (page 966)
■ To specify a different color for the polygon fill and outline (page 966)
■ To set the default fill pattern for polygons (page 967)
To add boundaries
1 At the Command prompt, enter mapmpedit (page 1818).
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