Modifying an Area Fill

Once an area fill has been created, you can modify its shape, or define if it should be isolated or associative.

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Creating an Area Fill
More About Area Fill Creation

  1. Select the area fill.



  2. Right-click the area fill and select Area Fill Modification .

    The Tools Palette toolbar appears.

  3. Make sure that Automatic Detection is selected in the Tools Palette toolbar and click inside the area that you want to make associative to the area fill.



    The Tools Palette toolbar disappears.

    The area fill is now associative with the selected element.

    For the purpose of this scenario, we will now isolate this area fill, then move it.

  4. Right-click the area fill and select Area Fill Modification .

    The Tools Palette toolbar appears.

  5. Click Create Datum and click the area fill.

  6. Drag the area fill and drop it at its new location.





    Note: You can also select the Isolate and Area Fill modification options from the contextual menu.