Text Hatch Sets
There is no undo facility when you edit colour sets, hatch sets, line sets, or symbol sets. If you want to be able to undo any future changes or deletions, you should first use the Save As button to save your current settings as a form set which can be re-loaded.
You can also open the Text Hatch Sets (Text) form by right-clicking (F4) in the Hatch Set response in a form or dialog (when the Hatch field you have selected is a character field).
- Enter or select the text codes you want to use. You can either use the Assign to Text Sets tool to extract text codes automatically or you can enter them manually. You can then select and group these codes into the combinations you require.
- Either use the automatically generated labels or edit them further to suit your requirements. The text that appears in the Label column can be used in the legend frame of a plot.
- Allocate a hatch to each text code by double-clicking (F3). Use the buttons on the local toolbar to Manage the rows in the list.
- Click Save As to save your changes as a new form set. Click Save and Close to save the current form as the default form set and close the Edit Hatch Set form.
Text Hatch Grid
Value
Double-click (or click on the Select icon) to select the text codes you want to use. Remember that you can use Assign to Text Sets to find all of the text codes in the nominated field. You can then select and group those codes into the combinations you require. Use the pipe symbol "|" to separate text codes in the same row of the text column.
Hatch
Double-click (F3) to select the hatch that will be used to represent each text code.
On the right-click menu, you can:
- Select Change Selected Hatches to modify the hatch pattern and the colours of SELECTED hatches.
- Select Change All Hatches to modify the fill pattern and the colour of ALL hatches.
- Select Change Properties of Selected Hatches to change individual properties of SELECTED hatches:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Pattern | Change the hatch pattern only |
| Foreground Colour | Set the foreground colour of the hatch and use the foreground colour for borders (Yes/No) |
| Background Colour | Set the background colour of the hatch |
| Border Colour | Set the border colour of the hatch |
| Border Line Type | Set a (THIN, MEDIUM, THICK, DOT, DASH) line type |
Label
If you use Assign, labels are automatically generated, based upon the entries assigned to the Text column. The labels can be changed if necessary. In the Plot Editor, the labels can be loaded into the Description column of a Legend frame.
Default
Double-click (F3) to select a default hatch pattern. If a hatch has not been specified for a text code, the default hatch will be used.
Palette
The colours you assign to the ranges in a colour set or a hatch set can be saved as a palette, which is simply a list of RGB colour values. When you click the Select button in an Edit Colour Set or Edit Hatch Set form, an extensive range of system palettes are available for selection. See: Colour Palettes
Forms
Click the Forms button to select and open a saved form set, or if a form set has been loaded, save the current form set.
New
Click the New button to clear all of the response boxes in the form.
Assign
Click the Assign button to automatically extract all the text codes from a field in the file. You can select and group the text codes, either manually, or by using Auto group. See: Assign to Text Sets
From Colour
Click the From Colour button to create a hatch set from an existing colour set. See: Convert Colour Set to Hatch Set
Save As
Click Save As to save your changes as a new form set. See: Save As
Save and Close
Click Save and Close to save your changes as the default form set and close the form.
Cancel
Click the Cancel button to close the form without saving your changes. Note that the Edit form will always show the last changes that were made. To revert back to where you were before changes were made, you will need to re-load a saved form set. If your original settings were not saved as a form set, they cannot be recovered.