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Area Style
The Area Style allows you to define how area (polygon-based) features will be rendered on the map. Area styles offer numerous controls for fill and outline colors, dash patterns and many other properties.
Video Overview
Properties
Name - The name of the area style. Choosing a descriptive name can help you quickly identify styles when you are compositing many of them together.
Fill - Sets the style of the fill of each area feature. The fill can be a color, gradient, hatch pattern or bitmapped texture.
Outline Color - Sets the style of the border around each area feature. The outline can be a color, gradient, hatch pattern or bitmapped texture.
Outline Thickness - Sets the thickness, in pixels, of the border around each area feature.
Dash Pattern
The options in this section control the appearance of the outlines around your area features. (If you have selected an Outline Thickness of 0, then these options do not apply.)
Pattern Type - Selects whether to use a basic (predefined) dash pattern or create your own custom pattern. This selection governs the behavior of the Dash Style control.
Dash Style - Allows you to choose the dash style to be used.
- If you have chosen a Basic Pattern Type, a dropdown menu will be presented that lets you select from one of the following options:
| Option | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Solid | Draws a solid outline without dashing. The default setting. |  |
| DashDot | Draws a dashed outline with a “dash-dot” pattern. |  |
| DashDotDot | Draws a dashed outline with a “dash-dot-dot” pattern. |  |
| Dot | Draws a finely dotted outline. |  |
| Dash | Draws a dashed outline. |  |
- If you have chosen a Custom Pattern Type, then the Dash Style property will be displayed as a text box where you can enter your own custom dash pattern. Dash patterns are expressed as a comma-delimited list of pixel lengths. The first number represents the length of the first dash in the pattern. The next number represents the length of the first space after that dash, and so on. When the end of the sequence is reached, it repeats.
As an example, a custom Dash Style of 3,1,8,1 would produce a dash pattern consisting of a 3-pixel dash, a 1-pixel space, an 8-pixel dash and then a 1-pixel space, repeated infinitely. The result would look like this: Dash Pattern - Custom Example.png Dash Cap - For lines thicker than 1 pixel, the Dash Cap controls how each end of a dash is capped.
| Option | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Flat | Applies a flat cap to each end of a dash. |  |
| Round | Applies a rounded cap to each end of a dash. |  |
| Triangle | Applies a triangular (pointed) cap to each end of a dash. |  |
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