Scaling Marsh, Grassland in Annual 20: Overland BW
AndyStaples
Newcomer
Can anyone tell me how to adjust the scale of the fills for the grassland and marsh mapping tooling in Annual 20?
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Assuming it uses symbol fills:
Open the drawing you want to change. If you want to change all future draws, open the template.
Click the fill style indicator.
Click Symbol Fills.
Pull down the fill style name (not the symbol name) and select the fill style you want to change
Change the symbol scale and spacing. You can increase the sample width to see the effect.
Note you can type arithmetic operators into edit boxes in CC3, eg, you can add *2 after the spacing and scale to double the size, or /2 to halve it.
Click OK, then save the drawing.
For bitmap fills, the process is the same except you just type in the width and height you'd like each tile to be.
However, it doesn't work. The fills appear to be hatching of some kind, rather than symbols. They don't appear in the scaleable hatching list, but do seem to be an exra entity in the drawing tools properties. There's no obvious way to scale them in the properties, though.
I have found a workaround. If I draw the marsh larger than I need it then scale it smaller, the fill becomes smaller too. Not ideal, but workable for now.
You find hatch styles in the CC3/Hatch Styles/ folder and these two are CA20 Grassland and CA20 Swamp respectively.
To create differently scaled versions, open the fcw files, rescale to your needed size and save them under a new name. In the original map, create a new copy of the drawing tools and under Advanced > Outline set the new hatch style.
For more info on hatch styles, see the help files.
Hope that helps!
I'll be using this style quite a bit, I think. It's a cracker.
I'd love to show this map, but as it's for publication I'll need the client's permission first.